This is an analysis of the poem Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her that begins with:
If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee XXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001111 11110101 01110101 11110101 01010101 11110101 11011101 11110001 11011111 010101111 01011011 01111101 111101001100 11110111 11110111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; would, and, i are repeated.
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