This is an analysis of the poem First Love that begins with:
Falling in love was like falling down the stairs
Each stair had her name on it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbcbdcccddXaecXaaffcXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110101 1110110 111101111011 101 1101001110101 1010001110 10100 1011001 011101 111100 1111010 1111010 1010 1010010111101 111111011110 01010011 1100110101 11111110010 10001 100 11101001011 01011 011 01111010 01011 011110001101 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; her, he, each, time are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, and, because are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, time are repeated).
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