This is an analysis of the poem A Lover Since Childhood that begins with:
Tangled in thought am I,
Stumble in speech do I?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaX bbbbbb aXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 100111 11101110101 100111 110111 10100110101 011111 110101 101100100101 111111 000101 110110101101 110111 1011000 1001001001011 110101 110101 101111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i, and, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
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