This is an analysis of the poem If I Adore You that begins with:
If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 01011101011101 01011100101101 1110101 10101111001 110101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, if, i, adore, you, out are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines paradise is repeated).
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