This is an analysis of the poem How Happy I Was If I Could Forget that begins with:

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How happy I was if I could forget... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXb accc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101101101 00101111 101100100 10101001 110010100 1111111 11110101 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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