This is an analysis of the poem To My First Love that begins with:

Put aside that song of love,
do not fill my heart with pain -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddefafddgdbhXeXidiejkbgbhhjljdmmkklgccecelhahkgXii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 1111101 01111101 10101101 01110101 01110101 01010111 01010111 11111101 11010101 01110101 111110001 01010011 111000101 11111101 11010101 110101000 1010101010 11111110 111101010 1110101 11001010 11110101 11010101 11110101 1011101 101001100 11111101 1110111 11010101 11111111 01011101 01110101 11111101 110101010 110101010 1110111 110100001 001010101 0101010101 101010001 100100101 1011101 101100001 10011101 11010101 11110101 11110101 1111101 11011101 11010111 01111100 11011111 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1904
  • Average number of words per stanza: 358
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, how, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hear, to, and are repeated.

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