This is an analysis of the poem But Not Forgotten that begins with:
I think, no matter where you stray,
That I shall go with you a way....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110111 11110101 11110101 10110111 11011111 110100111 11011111 11000101 11110111 011100101 11110110 11101100 111101011 110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of But Not Forgotten;
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