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

In the middle of the night, when we get up
after making love, we look at each other in...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbacabXbXdXXedecXfeeXfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100011111 101011111100 011011110 1010101010110 11011010010 10010001001 110101001111 10111010100 100111111 01111110110 0101001110 10010101 1001100 00111011 1100101111 1010010100 1010111 10100011111001 1100101111000 1101011 11000 01011010 11001100101 1111111111 11010101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1083
  • Average number of words per stanza: 192
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; we, other, i, in, and are repeated.

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

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