This is an analysis of the poem Love's Apotheosis that begins with:

Love me. I care not what the circling years
To me may do....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab aXab cccc adad ceceXebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101000 0111 01010111 1111 1101011111 1110 11110011111 1101 1111010111 1111 1101111111 0111 1101110000 1111 1101111111 1111 1111111101 1111 11110111111 0111 1111111111 1101 1111101101 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, and, my are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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