This is an analysis of the poem Romance that begins with:
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdeX X Xfeg XbaX X dXdX XagaX gXXX dbcb f c e XXXb XXcX X cfbf XXXX X dXXe XXXX X XXgX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,4,1,4,5,4,4,1,1,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111010100 11101101011101 101011011001 111001011100101 01110111001 010110111111 01101011101 10100111001 1 111010101 01111011 1110101101001 01101011001 11101111011 01001111011 111001101111 11011101101 1 111110110010 1100100111 10011010101 001100101010110 10111010101 111010010101 1110100110 1110001111 1 101100101010 101110101 111101111101 110111101000101 110111010010011 111111101 11110100111101 11111110101 01001 10 1 1111110111 111111101100 1110011010 111110101101 110101111101 1011011101110 0110111111 010101110101 1 110100111001 101101011 1011011111 10011001111 101111111110 1101001111011 110111111110 110111011 1 01110010110 1111111 111100110110 11011100011 111111001 111010111100 111110111001 111101011000 1 11100110011 11100110111 11101111101 110110111 1111101110 110011101100 1111110111 1100110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, her, your, to, on, de, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, you're, you, vous are repeated.
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- summary of Romance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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