This is an analysis of the poem Suppose that begins with:
Suppose, my dear, that you were I
And by your side your sweetheart sate;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdcC efefcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11111111 01110111 01011011 11111111 111111 11110001 01110101 11110101 00110101 11111111 111111 11011110 01010111 01011101 01001100 11111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; by, you, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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