This is an analysis of the poem Since Those We Love And Those We Hate that begins with:

SINCE those we love and those we hate,
With all things mean and all things great,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabB ccXB ddbB eebB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 01111111 100100101 10011101 01011111 100100101 11010101 10011101 11010111 111101101 11010101 10011101 11010101 11011101 000101011 10011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as are repeated.

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

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