This is an analysis of the poem You Looked For Me But that begins with:
You looked for me but now that time is gone for ever,
And all the joy we shared is lost, as I can see....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba caca dede cfcf gcgc hghg igig X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101110 110111011111 1101001111110 11100011100 1111111 111010 0101010 110111 110101111110 111001010100 11111011010 111101001101 010101 101110 111111 111111 1101001111010 010001011111 1101000111110 110100011111 1111010 110111 1111010 010011 11010100110 1101110110101 11010101010 111111110011 1101110 010111 0111110 011111 010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 779
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; you, i, unhappy, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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