This is an analysis of the poem To You, Remembering The Past that begins with:
WHEN we were parted, sweet, and darkness came,
I used to strike a match, and hold the flame ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeeeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1101011101 0111011101 01001000101 1101010011 1101001101 1011010111 1101111101 1011100101 1011110101 1011010101 10010111001 11011100001 1100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, your are repeated.
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