This is an analysis of the poem Just A Glance that begins with:
You've taken away my looks, my identity, by just a glance.
You've taken away my looks, my identity, by just a glance....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAXaXaXaXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111101001101 1100111101001101 11011010110 10101011101 111001011000 10110110101 11110111110 1110101101 1111101110 111111101 1100111101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, my, you've, just, glance are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you've is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines glance is repeated).
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