This is an analysis of the poem On The Nature Of Love that begins with:

The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbccacXXdXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01011010111 010101000101 11101001011 1010111101 1110110111 00110010010101 11011001 1111110101 11000101010 0101111011010 11110110101 11111011100 1110111111 0010111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; us, i are repeated.

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