This is an analysis of the poem The First Jasmines that begins with:
Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!
I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXbXXcaXXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011100 110010011111110 110011100 111011011011 111010100010100 10011 1011110110100100 1011011001001010 111000110011100 11101111101 100111101111110 100011001 1110011110101101 1111110101010010 10101 11101001000011 100111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jasmines, these, i, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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