This is an analysis of the poem The First Kiss Of Love that begins with:

Away with your fictions of flimsy romance;
Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb eXeb dbdb fbfbXebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011001001 11101111011 11011001101 101011101101 11011001001 11001011101 011100011011 111011001101 0010110001001 1010100011001 01011101001 11001001101 11111101001 110101111010 110100101001 110001001101 11011110001 100101111011 010001101001 111011001101 1100111101 01011101001 11001011011 11001001101 11101111011 10101001001 010100001001 110010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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