This is an analysis of the poem I Don'T Know If You'Re Alive Or Dead that begins with:
I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbbcXabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 111101 11010111 010100011 10110101 010111 1011001 110110110 1111101110 111 10011011010 110011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, me are repeated.
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