This is an analysis of the poem Initial Love that begins with:
Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddaaaaee bXddffggaXXfaadaadXfhhiXfjajkkfllllllff ddaaff XXfbbbddbbaamm llffXeXaaahhdd nnfXllllddffcX fafaaaaammjj mmfbXXaaooppddlljjaa ddffXhlhlqioiqqqllflfl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,39,6,14,14,14,12,20,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1111101 01010011 11010101 101110110 001101 1111101 1110101 10111010 10100110 1110101 11010011 010110011 10111111 1111111 111011000 111111011 11010111 1011101 1011101 00100101 11110001 100111111 11101010 01010001 10010101 111111111 11110101 11111111 11110101 11110101 1110111 01011100 11001100 10111010 110111010 010011110 101010100 1111101 110111 1111001 10101 1010101 1111 11001 11011111 11111111 110001010 11111010 11100101 11111101 011011010 1100101010 11001101 10010101 10000101 01010111 01011101 0011101 100010 01010100 1110101 1010101 10100110 01010010 1110111 11010111 1100100 1110100 1010011 11110101 11110101 1010101 1010111 11101001 1010111 11011001 111110110 11110011 10101010 1111101 1010101 0111111 10101010 0011100 010101001 0011001 1010100 11000100 10101010 10101100 011101010 10001010 1001001 1011101 1010111 1010101 10010101 01010111 1101011 1111100 11110110 11010101 11110010 11001101 11110111 1010101 10010001 10110101 1010101 11110101 01010011 11011101 10111101 1010101 11111111 11110001 101011011 01001001 11110101 1100100101 11010100 1010101 11110111 11000111 11010011 101011001 11010011 0100111001 1111111 11011101 11010101 1010011001 01011001 111111101 10101110 101001010 1010100 1011010 111100 1011010 1110100 1000100 1010101 1010101 1011001 10101000 10001000 1010100 001001101 11011101 10110111 11000101 110111001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 155
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, or, love, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, intimacy are repeated).
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