This is an analysis of the poem And Because Love Battles that begins with:

And because love battles
not only in its burning agricultures...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcde dfg agaa gbhgi hfjadaakifi lldbfgXXmeaaX cfgdmahai cjlameacel jXigggXlXd kjXdaddf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,4,5,11,13,9,10,10,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 110001010000 11000101110 101011100101 01101111110 101011011 011101 101111 11111 110010 0111011 110111111 10011111101 111111 1110011101 11010100010 011111 11011011 10010 010010011 111 111 100111 011010 1111111 11110 01101 001011 011111 101110101 01101 001111111 110101 11 0101011 1111011 11111100 110011 110110111111 110111 1111110 1110011100 110111 101111 110111 111 111111 11111 11010 000101011 10111010 011111011 11010110100101 11110101101 011101 110101011 1111001 1010 1110100101 111111 1111 11011 011010 1 011111110101 110111 10111 1011101011 111011010101 1101101010010 11100 011101010 0100101101 101101 100101111 10111 0101001 0101010100 0011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, of, you, more, and, light, them are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for, more, i, like are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.

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