This is an analysis of the poem The Art Of Love: Book Two that begins with:

...Short partings do best, though: time wears out affections,
The absent love fades, a new one takes its place....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcaabbdeXdaaXaXXfeXcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111010 01011011101 0100011000010110 01100001 11110110100 1111011 00100011111010 1100101 1101110100010 10111111011 1110101011010 1010100111011 111110110101010 1101110101 11011010010010 11011010001 10100111101010 1001111001001 110011010100100 11010101 11101001011110 01001110101 10110010010100 1010110111 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 212
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her is repeated.

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  • summary of The Art Of Love: Book Two;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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