This is an analysis of the poem Dear Colette that begins with:
Dear Colette,
I want to write to you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd efXg gea heX gha bbXX Xi cjjckXc fJiJeJkJcJjl Ab igeXfbgeXAdl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,3,4,2,7,12,2,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 110101 0110010 11011101 11011111 01010101010 10111 1111 11011111 11011 111 11011111 010111 11110 11011111 10111 101 11011 101111 111100 11110000 10110 111 10100110 10100 1010 1000010 10101001011 1010101010 100010101 110110 1110 10101010 1110 111 11110 1011 11110 1010101 1110 101110 11 111 1101011 1111 0101110 1111001 1110 111110100 11 11011110 111 111 111 001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, my, you, alone are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, writing are repeated).
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