This is an analysis of the poem Lyrics Of Love And Sorrow that begins with:

I
Love is the light of the world, my dear,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Bcda BcXc Bede X faga faha X iede ijfj X hhddiikk a XifiegjXhlal hidiXXhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,8,1,12,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100100111 10101010 011110111 1101001 100100111 11101010 0101111010 11101110 100100111 01101010 1011100111 10111010 1 01110101 010101 11110011 110101 11011101 110101 11010001 0100101 1 0110101 1011 1111101 1101 0110101 1101 1101101 1011 1 111111 111001 1100101 111001 1111101 1111101 11100111 100101001 1 11101010 1100111 1010100111 11000101 11111010 0110111 011100101 11101111 11101011 110101 110011111 101111 11111110 111111 101100111 100101 111110010 1101111 1011111111 0101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, i, that are repeated.

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

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

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