This is an analysis of the poem Unrequited Love that begins with:
Love unrequited is a crushing yoke;
but if you see love as a game, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadeeddeefXgfggfbfeXebfhhciXheijjkXllmgfgfXkmggkfjfffmjXmj Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101 10111101 010 1101010101 10100100111 110111000100 10010111010 1100100111 01 111101110 01110110010 111010101 11 01010100111 01010101010 010010101 01 01010111010 110111 1101 11000100010 110111 01110 1111110110 11 111101010 01011111010 010100 0101 11111111010 01011101110 010100 1101 11010101010 01011011010 1101 11100 11010101010 11110110010 0101010101 0111011101 11111001010 1110010011 00111101110 01110100 11 11 110111010 01110111010 1101110111 1111111101 01010 1000010 0100111101 01010001010 1100110001 01111101010 01110101 11 01010111010 1 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1170
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; love, i, of, s, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words afraid, a are repeated.
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