This is an analysis of the poem Poems On Love that begins with:

Love adorns itself;
it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bX aX bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 010110111010 1111010 1110 10110100 1011010010 1110010 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
  • Average number of words per stanza: 11
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it 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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  • summary of Poems On Love;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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