This is an analysis of the poem Love In The Guise Of Friendship that begins with:
Talk not of love, it gives me pain,
For love has been my foe; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 111011 11101101 111101 11011101 111101 11011101 110101 11011111 111101 11010101 111001 11011101 010011 11101101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; me is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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