This is an analysis of the poem After Breaking Up We Make Up Enough that begins with:

After breaking up we make up enough.
And doing this as if, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABX AXC bCBCDCAB aAb bCBCDCAB BCBCBCAB AEAEAEAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,8,3,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111101 110010 100100 0111010 1010111101 010101 001001 0110010 001001 00111010 001001 0010111 11001 110010 100100 110101111101 110010 000100 01111010 001001 00111010 001001 0010111 11001 110010 100100 1110010 111111 1110010 111111 1110010 111111 110010 100100 1010111101 01010 1010111101 01010 1010111101 01010 110010 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, up, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word after at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word benefit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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