This is an analysis of the poem Others, I Am Not The First that begins with:
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeccXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 11110111 00010111 1011101 1110101 11110111 111101110 10100010 1011101 11101111 1000101 1110111 10110111 1110101 110110111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
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