This is an analysis of the poem When We Were Here Together that begins with:
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one
another....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXddccdaXadadXXbcdbXabXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001101111 010 01011010110101110 1 1101011110011010 11001101 1110110001011001 101111111001110 10011101010101000 1 110011110101011010 0111010010010100 1110100100111101 001 1110101101011101 1110110011010101010 100001001110111 101011011 100100111011110 010000110100001110 100110100001100001 11010110110110010 001001 1101010001101111 010 11010110111110001 0110101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1382
- Average number of words per stanza: 268
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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; and, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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