This is an analysis of the poem Shall I Forget? that begins with:
Shall I forget on this side of the grave?
I promise nothing: you must wait and see... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101001 1101011111 1011 1111011101 1101010101 1101010111 1011 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 8
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word shall at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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