This is an analysis of the poem My First Memory ( Of Librarians ) that begins with:

This is my first memory:
A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXabcdcdeeXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011100 0110101010111010 11 010111011010 101110111101110 11 1101011 11111111 0010111010101010 001101101 101110110111 011 10111001 01001010100 000010011 1110101110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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