This is an analysis of the poem Do You Love Me? that begins with:
A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabc bXcXcd XdXbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 111101 1111 001001 111011 11111 1101011 11101 11011011 110101110 10101 1101010 111111 10110 1110 01111 111 0111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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