This is an analysis of the poem Love And War that begins with:

Two thousand years ago
our word for love...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abX cbd aefgehGgidhXigG daggggjG kljd eXd lgddkcXXgbgceefbhdX djXdi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,15,8,4,3,19,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001 1111 101 1011 11101 01000001 11101 11100 1101001 11101 1111010 110100010 11 01110110 11101101 1110101 1111 10101 10101 010001010 11 1101 1011 111 1111 1101 1101 10 11 110 01001 01100 101011 101 0101 110001 11 010 10101 10101 10101010 10110010 1010100100 1101010011 10101 1010100 01001 10110 100111 011101001 101 10110 0110 0011000101 1010111 1010111 110100 110111 11100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, love, than, or, where are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love, or, the, where are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines was is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word was at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Love And War;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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