This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of Love that begins with:
I REMEMBER the first tiny cry that she gave
And my heart felt a thrill that it never had known,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebfefX dfdfgXgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001101111 111101101011 111101001101 001101101001 11111111001 11001101011 111101011101 101011001101 101001101101 101011101111 101111001101 01111111001 11111111001 1001111101 101111101001 111111011001 110101001101 001111101001 11111011101 01101011101 11001011011 11011111010 111001001001 001001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, i, as, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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