This is an analysis of the poem From Love's First Fever To Her Plague that begins with:
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second
And to the hollow minute of the womb,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdXbe dfeghd iXecaeajk Xadhlc gkcilXlk edaXljbfahdia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,9,6,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000100110 1001001001 00010001001 0111101101 11110101010 111111010 1111000101 1111011101 01111111 0011001001010 1010001 00110010101 1001110101 01110111 01110111010 010101001001 01010100010 0101011101 1011111111 10110101 10110101 1101010101 11011100010 110101 0111010110 0111010101 0001010111 11010100101 10011101010 100010111 1001100001 1111010101 00010100001 0111010101 11011011010 1111 01011001010 1101110111 11010011110 01011111 11011101010 111111010 111101010 00010111010 0111110001 0101110101 1111 100101001 01010101010 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, to, one, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one are repeated.
The author used the same words from, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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