This is an analysis of the poem A Chance Meeting that begins with:
I saw her in the lot
facing a man twice her size...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc dabe eXXX acaa XdabXa Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001 1001101 0100110 01100101 1010101 111101 111010 1111 110100101 110101 101001 0011001 10111101 100011101 10111111 1111 1111100 11111 111001 10110 1110 111110 11110100001 11100101 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, i are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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