This is an analysis of the poem Counting The Beats that begins with:
You, love, and I,
(He whispers) you and I,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa BBBA aaaa aaaa cccaXBBBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 110111 1011110111 11111 1001 100111 01001010111 10011 101 110101 101101011111 00101 1110 1101110 1111111110 10111 1111 110101 1111010111 11111 1001 100111 01001010111 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- 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; you, and, i, beats, day, where, we, be, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word counting is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i, beats, day, be, here are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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