This is an analysis of the poem Choosing A Name that begins with:
I have got a new-born sister;
I was nigh the first that kissed her.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaa acbbddcaeeff ggbbXgaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11101110 10101010 01001010 11011010 10100010 11011010 11101000 11101110 10101010 11101110 11101010 10100101 1110111 11101010 11101010 1010111 1001101 1011101 1010101 1111111 1101100 1000111 11110101 1010110 1011101 11001010 10111110 10101010 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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