This is an analysis of the poem A Last Confession that begins with:
What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXc debeXe XfXfgf gdcdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 011011 11011111 110100 11110001 111100 1000111 010101 11011101 011101 11010101 11111 11110101 111011 11010101 100101 10111101 11101 11011101 110011 11010100 11111 11010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, own, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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