This is an analysis of the poem You Thought I Was That Type that begins with:
You thought I was that type:
That you could forget me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXX Xc bXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111011 111111 111110010011 11110100 11101010111101001 11001100 111011111 0100110101 1110110100010 11101001010 1101011011 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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