This is an analysis of the poem No, Love Is Not Dead that begins with:

No, love is not dead in this heart these eyes and this mouth
that announced the start of its own funeral....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbcdcXeXfghXidgcgXfejabfeXfiX kkhjk X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100111101 10101001100 101101001000100 1010 11101001100 111101111 101101111011 11111111 10111010 11111011 111010010100110 101010110110 10101010001110101 010100101100101 00110101011000 0101 101100111 1101101010101 1011111001 11010 11011100110 11000111010 010111110101 1111 101010101000 101010010010101010 010101001010101010 011010010001 0101111001 1101011110101 011011 01101101100 0101010111 111 010111 010101100010 101111010101 01100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, love, and, your are repeated.

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

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