This is an analysis of the poem As You Leave Me that begins with:

Shiny record albums scattered over
the living room floor, reflecting light...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabc dbbb dcbbcaX baXddXXadcb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,11,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001101010 010110101 001101011 1111111001010 01110110111 11 01111101110 101111111010 01111111 1 10101011110 0010111101110 010111110 11010111110 11101011001 011111110011 11 10010011101 10111011 111001111111 11011111111 1011111111 1110111111111 11001011111 01011111111111 1010011 01011101 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; your, and, you, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word you 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 is repeated).

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  • summary of As You Leave Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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