This is an analysis of the poem The Long Tunnel Of Wanting You that begins with:
This is the long tunnel of wanting you.
Its walls are lined with remembered kisses...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXXcXdbXeXdecbbca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001100101 0111001010 111001011 11011101 11110011 11110101 11110101001 11111011 1111100101 111101110 0001100110 1000101001 101000010 10011101 101010001011 001011001010 10010110 0011001110 101111110 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 796
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, your are repeated.
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