This is an analysis of the poem December, 1903 that begins with:
And if I can't speak about my love-
if I don't talk about your hair, your lips, your eyes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110111 011101111111 1111110111 010111110111 01001010011 111100111100 1101111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; your, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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