This is an analysis of the poem Love-Song that begins with:

If Death should claim me for her own to-day,
And softly I should falter from your side,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111110101 1101110011 11111111001 1111001101 1110110101 11010111010 11110100101 01111111110 1111011111 1101011111 1111111111 1101111101 1011011111 0101110111 11111010101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • summary of Love-Song;
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