This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 10 that begins with:

In the exuberance of youth, as it usually happens and as thou knowest, I was on the closest terms of intimacy with a sweetheart who had a melodious...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bX c Xdedfegbfe c cgXXXgfgeeaXdXfXgccefdfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,10,1,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00010001101001011110111010101000001111001001101100101110 1010111010010100 010110101110 110010100010011100010110101101001101110111010100011010010 1111110 11111101 1111011101 001010110001 0100010101 1001010100110111 1101010110100 001000101010100 01111010110 011101101 1000100110111100100100111010110110101000111101010111010001010101101001110111 10111101001001 1101101001011 0111001101 11010010110 0101011110110 11010011100010 111110110100 010001001101 10110101 10011111 11100010010 11011011 10110101111 10101010111 11000101 0111000111 1011011111 0100010111 110100111001 111101110101 111111010010011 11110101 1011011110010011 010111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i, to, had, his, more are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).

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