This is an analysis of the poem That Day that begins with:

This is the desk I sit at
and this is the desk where I love you too much...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdeXBXcdaddXXffagcfdehcaaBcXigdXgihhXbXjjba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001111 10001111111 100011011011 1101101101011 001010010110 0011011011111 0011100101101 0011011001001 1110111 1101011 1111011 1100110011 10011011 1101110011 1011111111 1110111110100 1011110111010 1101110111010 1111011101010 000101101100 011101111010 0101110111100 10100110111010 10010110111 10111100101011 0010010100101010 00010101100101101 101101111111 1100100111010 1110111 1101011 11101100100101 101011100110101 1101101011010 111011011111 11101101111 1111111111010 110111110011 1110011110101 1110001101 111101111011 111011111101 1111111111 0110101011011 10110110011 100011011011 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 428
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, its, with, like, tongue, that, your, for, and, bourne, we're, you, in, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, that, surely, if, while are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, bourne are repeated).

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  • summary of That Day;
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