This is an analysis of the poem Fletcher Mcgee that begins with:
She took my strength by minutes,
She took my life by hours, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbbXbebXcaXebbbdeaXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1111110 11110101 110101 0111111 010111 1110011 110001 11010101 1101010 11010101 110101 11011101 1101010 11110001 1011010 01110110 1101010 1001110 1011101 11010101 1110010 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 769
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; she, it, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, the, i, and are repeated.
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