This is an analysis of the poem Adam's Curse that begins with:

WE sat together at one summer's end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccfXfgghhiXXXjbkkXljjiiddllff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1100110111 1111110100 11110111010 1001110101 1101100101 1011011101 1101010111 11110011010 10010011010 0011011111 01110010101 0101001101 010101 1101 1100110111 11001111111 1101010111 0110110001 1111110011 1111100100 1111010111 1101111100 1101011110 1101001100 111111011 1001010011 1101110110 1111010101 1101100111 10010011001 0111001001 1111011111 0101110110 1101111111 1101001111 0110011101 10111101111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 311
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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