This is an analysis of the poem First And Not Our Second Thoughts that begins with:
Let's romance our first,
And not our second thoughts of love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAAaa cdaXad edcdX ABAAXedea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 11110101 01011101 11 1010010 100011 11101 1111010 010100011 11110101 101 10111101010 1100011011 10010001001 11010011 1111 0101110 10111 11110101 01011101 11 111110101 1100 0111101 000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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