This is an analysis of the poem Always For The First Time that begins with:
Always for the first time
Hardly do I know you by sight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcbcdbbefagchcdXbXhXgeeeiibbbiXfichbeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011 10111111 101111000100111100110 010010101 00110110001 00010010 1010111010101010 011101 00011011 0101101 00100 0101110100011 110101011 11110101000010 0010100010 00101011011110100010001 000100100110 0100110100111 01001101001 01010001 00101010110 0011101111010101011 111110 0101111011011 10110111101 100011110111 110011011 010010100110110 001011 111011011110111110010 1100110001101001 1101110110 1010010001110 10010101110010 10 1110100100 0110111001010 110010 0101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1646
- Average number of words per stanza: 321
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, you, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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