This is an analysis of the poem I Said To Love. that begins with:

I said to Love,
"It is not now as in old days ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbbacXA DccXbXD AeeaXXA affaXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 100111011 11011111 1101 11010101 1101001010 1101 1101 11110111 10110101 0110 110011111 011111000 1101 1101 101111111 11011101 1111 11110100 110100100 1101 10011 11111101 01010101 1100 11110101 11110100 111111010 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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