This is an analysis of the poem When First I Met Thee that begins with:
When first I met thee, warm and young,
There shone such truth about thee, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdEfef cgcghbXbEiei cbcbhfhfidiX fdfdjbjbkbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1111011 11111101 1011011 11111101 1101010 11110101 0111110 111001 0111110 111111 0111110 110011101 11001010 110100111 1101010 11111101 01001011 01111111 1111011 111001 1101110 0100101 0101010 101110111 1101011 01111111 1111011 11110101 1101100 01011111 1111010 111101 1111010 110101 1111010 11111111 11011110 11110101 1011110 10101101 0111011 11010111 0101011 111101 1100111 110111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; thee, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, when, on are 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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