This is an analysis of the poem Whom The Gods Love that begins with:
Whom the gods love die young. Ah, do not doubt of it.
Laura did well to die. Our loss was a gain for her,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac bbbb dcdc dada dbdb bXbX eeeeXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111100 1001011110110 1111010111100 1001110100110 11010101100100 1000010100100 1011110110100 1011010101100 1011110100100 1111111101100 1011110101100 110101001001100 1111111111111 1110010100100 1001111110111 1111010100100 1111110101101 1101110100100 1111010101101 1001010110100 1111111110101 11110011111100 1101110111101 1101110111100 11011001111100 1001110100100 1101111110100 11110111011100 1011110100111 1101010100101 1011010111111 1001110110101 1011110111110 100011110110100 1110010100110 1001110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, to, our, which, him, she, not, he, i, with, too, me, as, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word had is repeated.
The author used the same word which 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 her, me are repeated).
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