This is an analysis of the poem And Love Has Changed To Kindliness that begins with:

When love has changed to kindliness --
Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabccbddeXeaeabbfggfhfhihijjkkffkkaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 11110111 11111111 100101101 101000101 01110101 110101010 010011010 010110111 010001000 11011101 01110101 11110101 01011101 10010101 110110101 10000101 11111111 10110101 011101101 11011101 10110101 11011111 10011110 00111011 11010101 11110101 11010101 111101111 10110111 11011011 110110111 11011101 110010111 00110011 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 234
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.

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