This is an analysis of the poem True Love At Last that begins with:
The handsome and self-absorbed young man
looked at the lovely and self-absorbed girl... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abC baC dadX daaa XcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110111 1101011011 11 01011011 111010110111 11 101111 010100101111 111011110 101001 101111 010100101011 111011 1110110101001010 1110011010 1001 10110101 0101011100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, self, absorbed are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mine is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word thrilled at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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