This is an analysis of the poem After Someone Special Enters that begins with:

Proposals to dance.
And romance snuggled up close, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabXXb XXaaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01001 1011011 10110 10110 101010100 1010 10011 10111111 10011010 001011110 100100001001 1011101011 00100101101 110010001001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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.

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  • summary of After Someone Special Enters;
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