This is an analysis of the poem No, Thank You John that begins with:
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX abab cccc bXbX dede fgfg dhh iaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 10111111 1101000101 0111001100 11110111 11011111 1011100111 1111011 11111111 10011011 1110110111 110101 111101111 11110110 111111111 11101 111011 1111111001 110101000101 11010001 11110111 11010101 1101010101 111101 11111101 11111100 10110101001111101 01010101 10110111 1101101111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, i, have, to, days are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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