This is an analysis of the poem I Would Live In Your Love that begins with:
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101101001 11111101011111101 111011001111001 111011101111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, i, would, it, in, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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