This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 05 that begins with:

A schoolboy was so perfectly beautiful and sweet-voiced that the teacher, in accordance with human nature, conceived such an affection towards him...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXaa a Xcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111100100111101000100101001110100111110010010010 1111101010111001 101001101011 0111101000111 1111110011111101 10110111100011100110110001100101100011011011010001011111110100101011111010111010101110110110110 011010011 110010010 10110011011001 0111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 97 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 17
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, to, i, it, may, my are repeated.

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