This is an analysis of the poem 'Twas Just This Time, Last Year, I Died that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXX XXbX aXXX bXXX ccXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011111 111101 111101010 0101010 111100110 1101010 11110011 110110 111110001 0101100 10110101 0101010 11011111 111101 0101010100 0111010 11010101 110111 11010101 0101010 101111 11110101 110110110 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; 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.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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