Poem Analysis of Our First Date by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Our First Date that begins with:

Give me the right to love.
Isn't that what you desire and wish? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCD efae dccXac ABCagcXXdcXc ABCDXXc XhdigX iddce dhX fde X dcXXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,12,7,6,5,3,3,1,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110101 0011101011 00111101100 110101010 1101001100 110110010 1111011 1011010001101 1000111101 11100000110 111100111 0010011110 1100101 1010001000010010 110101 0011101011 00111101100 110100101 10100101100100 1111010110100 0111 0111110 010000110010100 1101001101100001 001111110100 000100110110101 110101 0011101011 00111101100 110101010 111011000 1010111 101011111 10 0010011011 1 10111111 11010101110 001110011 11 1111010 110110111 11011 10010010111 111 111 01010 1 10111 11111011110 111110101100 111 110 1010 101 111011
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words isn't, give, that's are repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Our First Date by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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