This is an analysis of the poem Was The Promise You Now Break Just Casual Words that begins with:
Was the promise you now break just casual words,
That you leave, dear friend, forsaking me? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX bb cc dX aX XXXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011111001 111110101 11011111 111011101 111111101 101011101 0110111111 11110101 011010111 10101001011 110100110010 111111001 10101011011 110101000101 11011101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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