This is an analysis of the poem A First Confession that begins with:
I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbX ccXdde ffeaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 010011 01101 1101100 101010 101100 111111 110101 110110 101010 111010 0010011 101111 00101 111001 111011 1111111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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