This is an analysis of the poem Has Your Heart Turned To Stone, Love? that begins with:

Has your heart turned to stone, love?
The breast-fruits can’t be gifted to anyone just like that!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcXXcAB XXbAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 01110100100111 111010011110 1110110101 100101011110100111010 1111101010 1111011 01110100100111 11010100001001 11110011101 101111111011 1111011 01110100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they, love are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Has Your Heart Turned To Stone, Love?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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