This is an analysis of the poem When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story that begins with:
—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXbdXdeXffgXdgcXXaaXfceXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001100101110100 11010011101011 11101011101 1110101110100010101 1011011 011 1111110011010 110110111101 101110101 111010111 11110110101 1111111001011 1111001001110 100110101110011010001110 01110111110110 11011 11011111 110110 111110101 1110101101000 1011010011101 111100011110111001 111110100011 1100 1101000110 1111101011 1111 11101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1260
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, have, forgotten, when, if, to, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then are repeated.
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