This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 06 that begins with:

I remember that one night a dear friend of mine entered when I jumped up in such a heedless way that the lamp was extinguished by my sleeve. A vision...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b a cbXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101101101111010101101101011101001001110010010101010 1101111010100100 11011011001101111011010011111011101111 11101010101 0101111000010 10000101111 11101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 94 (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; i, that, and, lamp, when are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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