This is an analysis of the poem The Time When I First Fell In Love that begins with:

The time when first I fell in love,
Which now I must lament;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb bcdc XedeXbaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 111101 01011111 010110 01011111 0100010 010011111 1110010 11001011 111101 01010101 111101 11110001 110111 101111110 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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