This is an analysis of The Need To Love by Alan Seeger.
The need to love that all the stars obey
Entered my heart and banished all beside.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bXbb adad bbbb eeee fgfg cece bgbX fafX ahah
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101110101 1011110101 1001011101 10010111101 01010001110 01110101001 11010100010 11111100101 1101010101 01110101000 1011111101 1101010001 0100011101 0111110101 1101110101 1101011101 1001110111 0101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 11010001101 1001010101 1001100101 1101010101 0101101101 0110010101 1111101101 11111101010 0011110010 01010100010 1101011101 1111011000 0111010111 1101010101 1101110010 11110101010 1111010101 10010101110 1101000100 1101011011 1111010001 1101010111 1100010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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