This is an analysis of the poem An Old Sweetheart Of Mine that begins with:
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddaa bbee eeaa ffbb ffaa gghh ddaa iiee jjaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111010110101 11010100011111 111010101010001 11010100111101 01010100010001 111010110010011 11110101011101 01010111010001 101010001010111 001011010010001 101011100010001 111010100111101 111011101010001 01001101010111 11110100011101 11110100010001 01010101010101 01000100010101 111110100100101 11110100111101 01010100010101 11010111010001 111010100010101 11010101110101 111011001010101 11111101110001 001010101110101 1101111111101 101110100010101 111010100010111 11100101010101 11010101110100 11110100010101 10010100010101 101010101010101 101010101111101 1110010010101 11110111010111 11101101110101 11110101010111 11110101010101 101010101110101 101001101110101 01010100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, with, my, in, as, she, ever, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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