This is an analysis of the poem If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley that begins with:
When you came you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXb X ccaaddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111110 101011110010 1111101 1110 1101111111110 11101010 10100010 11110101110111 11111100111111 11110101111011 11010101110111 11110101110101 11110101110001 11011101111111 11101101011111 11010111110111 11110111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, i, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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