This is an analysis of the poem When First I Came Here that begins with:
WHEN first I came here I had hope,
Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fXfX gege gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 11111111 111010011 11111011 101100101 11101101 10011111 10011100 11110111 01011111 11001100 011100001 01100111 11111100 11111101 1101110100 111101001 11110111 10010101 11011101 11111101 111110100 01110011 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hope connects the lines.
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