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

LOVE took me up, a naked, helpless child,
Love laid me sleeping on the tender breast,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa cacadd efefgg hXhfbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1111110101 1111011100 1101110111 1101110111 1001110101 110100101 10110100101 1101111101 1111111111 1011110111 01110100101 1101100101 1101110101 111000100101 1101011101 1111110111 11110001010 1111010111 1101010101 1001010101 0011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; love, me, my, with, and are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.

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