This is an analysis of the poem More To Come that begins with:
If I go blind, I will follow you
by the sound of your voice alone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX caXd edXc dfgb ghXeXgchf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110101 10101101 0111001 1101010111 0111101010 01001101 0110011010 1011101 011111110101 0011101 10101101111 1011111110 1001101001001 11001011010100 0011101111 10111111 0101110011 0111111 110100010111 10111 111111011 0010111010 111111111 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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