This is an analysis of the poem When I Love that begins with:
When I love
I feel that I am the king of time...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd AcedX AfXab Xfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 111110101 10101110110 1100010111 111 101101 0100001 10100111 0110010110 111 010100110 11111 111 10111111 111010 101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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