This is an analysis of the poem The First Meeting that begins with:
The first fond meeting holy
Is like the woodbirds' trilling,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 0101010 0101110 1101110 0101110 1111100 1100110 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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