This is an analysis of the poem My Three Loves that begins with:

When Life was all a summer day,
And I was under twenty,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee adadffffee gXgXhihiee hbhbgjgjee kkkklglgee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1111010 11010011 1111110 11010001 1110010 01000101 1101010 11110111 11011101 01111111 1111010 01010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101110 11110111 01011101 01010101 011100 01010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 11010001 11000010 11111101 01111101 01110101 10101110 11011101 1111010 11011001 0101110 01010101 0101010 01011101 01011101 11011101 0101010 11011101 1100010 01001101 1110010 10010101 1101110 11110101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of My Three Loves;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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