This is an analysis of the poem Not Crossing Bridges that begins with:
MEBBE I shall weep tomorrow,
Mebbe I shall lose my job, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 111111 1101110 1110111 1101010 110101 1101010 1011101 1101100 1111101 10111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mebbe, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mebbe is repeated.
The author used the same word mebbe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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