This is an analysis of the poem A Love Song that begins with:
What have I to say to you
When we shall meet?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cdXeffXg bfXXXd fcXdg gXbebehXhfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,6,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1111 1 1111001 0101 00101 101010 010001 1010 011011 100 0101101 1011 1001011 110101 1101 10010 0011 1101 0101 11011 111 10101 11 11010010 10100 1111 111 11111 11010 1111 011101101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yellow is repeated.
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