This is an analysis of the poem Love Is Cruel, Love Is Sweet that begins with:
Love is cruel, love is sweet,--
Cruel, sweet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 101 1011101 111 1111101 1011101 1011101 111 1111111 111 1111101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, bold, shy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sigh, bold are repeated.
The author used the same word love 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 sweet, meet, sly, shy are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word pain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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