This is an analysis of the poem Xvii (I Do Not Love You...) that begins with:
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX aaXX XbX XbX X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101011111 1010001001011 111110111001 01001011101 1111011101 1100010101010 10110101010 100011100110 1110110111101 111110001010011 111101111101 1011110111 11111111011 11111111101 01011010 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, i, or, love, close are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, so are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Xvii (I Do Not Love You...);
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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