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

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
Where that comes in that shall not go again;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcccadadee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10010010101 1110111101 1101110101 11111101101 11110111110 11000111010 0100101011110 11110111110 1001011001 11111111110 1111111111 010001101110 1101110101 1001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; love, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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