This is an analysis of the poem Ringleted Youth Of My Love that begins with:

RINGLETED youth of my love,
With thy locks bound loosely behind thee, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX dXdXefef cgcgdbdb hXhXibib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011 011110011 1110101 111010011 100111 0111010011 11001001 0110111110 011101 111011010 0111001 01001011 1001101 01001100 111011101 1111111001 11111101 10101011010 111101101 0111010010 111101101 11110011 101101001 101010011 1101111 1101111 101011001 101001110 101001001 111110011 101111001 111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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