This is an analysis of the poem This Is Love that begins with:
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXb XXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00101010101 01010101110 101101 0010101011 0010110100 101011010001 111101010 010010010 01011001 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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