This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 36 - When We Met First And Loved, I Did Not Build that begins with:
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When we met first and loved, I did not build... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaaXbacacaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 1111111011 01001010101 0101110001 1011011101 10010011101 0101110100 010101111101 1111111111 01010011111 1110011101 01001110111 111001101101 1101010111 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; and is repeated.
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