This is an analysis of the poem Love’s Likenings that begins with:
He.
To what, love, shall I liken thee?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAabacdbedefeafeaAa agagdaada hXhaiaia aaajaajaafffcffeaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,9,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01111101 1101100 01100101 0010001 1011100 1110111 1010111 11100010 1010101 10101010 1011101 00100110 1111101 1110011 11101010 1111101 01111101 1111110 1 11001110 0010001 11111010 1011101 1110011 1111111 1011101 1101101 1111001 0010100 1101001 1110111 1011111 0110111 1111101 1110101 1 01111101 1111100 0110101 1010001 10111011 10100101 10101111 01110011 1110111 1010101 1110101 0011100 1011111 1010101 10101010 1111001 11110010 11111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, till, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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