This is an analysis of the poem A Quarrel With Love that begins with:
Oh that I could write a story
Of love's dealing with affection!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg ahah fgfg eieiXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 01100010 11101010 10100010 11111011 0010011 10111011 1001101 10101110 00101010 11101010 110101010 10111010 10101110 10111010 10101010 10101110 11101010 11101110 10111010 1000010 10111010 10101010 00101010 11101010 00100010 11101010 10101110 00111010 00111010 00101110 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, in, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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