This is an analysis of the poem From – Twenty Poems Of Love that begins with:

I can write the saddest lines tonight.
Write for example: ‘The night is fractured...

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  • Rhyme scheme: A Xb cAd ce dc Af fb fe XF fe cX ff cc fX cFXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101 1101001010 11101110010 011100111 111010101 110011111 1111110011 110101001001 111011101 1111110111 111010101 011110011110 101110010 1110111101 1101011110 01010110101 1011111111 1101100110 1101011110 1111010101 0111000110 101111101 111011011110 1110101010 10010101110 0101101001 1110110101110 101010111 1111110011 1101100110 100011101110 11101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, have, loved, my, same are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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

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

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