This is an analysis of the poem First Love that begins with:
My long first year of perfect love,
My deep new dream of joy; She was a little chubby girl,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc defe fdf dgXg hebeecec fXhX XXdb egeg igjg jjajXeeie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,8,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 11110111010101 110101 11010111 0101110 11110101 1101010 11010111110101 010101001 111001 11110111 1111010 11011111 1111010 11010101 110001 11011011 110101 01011101 111001 11010111 110111 01010101 110101 111111010 110111 01110110 111101 11010111 100111 11011101 1111010 01011101 1101010 11010101 0101110 11010111 0101010 1110101 1101010 10010011 1011110 11111010 011111 011111001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; how is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, how are repeated.
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