This is an analysis of the poem Love I Have Served, For Such Length Of Time that begins with:
Love I have served, for such length of time
If I forsake Him no man should blame me,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdead eafaaffe gcgebggb Xcbcbbcc hehiihheXehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111101 0101111111 11110110101 111011010 1101111010 11100111101 110101011001 100101101010 110011101 110110011 110101001 01110100011 1100111011 10100100101 1111101111 1101111101 110001011 1111100100 010010111 1010101001 1100111011 0111011011 10101101101 110101111 1100101101 11111100 1100101101 101100100 110101111 0101100111 1111101100 1100101100 01101111111 011101001 111111101 1111101111 1110101011 1111111101 101011111 1110101110 11110111001 0110011111 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, him, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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