This is an analysis of the poem My First Affair With That Older Woman that begins with:
when I look back now
at the abuse I took from...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b a c d X X X e f d g h i b c c h b i X i h j i i f f g j f e b e d X f b e e f i eXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1001110 0 1111111 100 1111 101111 1 11101101 01011 1010 0101 11111110 1010 010 111010 11001101 1001 110110 01010 1 11101 1 01000 1111 11010 101 1111101 11011010 000010 00110 111101 110 1000 1111001 111 10101010 11 1110 1 01111 1 1101 110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 17
- Average number of words per stanza: 4
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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 and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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