This is an analysis of the poem Sweet—you Forgot—but I Remembered that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab XaXa XcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111010 100111 110101010 10101 101101110 10101 100011010 10101 100101110 11101 100111110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • 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; to is repeated.

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