This is an analysis of the poem Before I Met You that begins with:
Before I met you,
I felt like nothing was new....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aaba cXd Xdec ADbADAFAG ADAGAG ADAFAGEabGXAbGEAbGEAbGEAbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,9,6,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 1111011 10 01110011 011011 1010 1 01101111 1010111 11 100011 01111 110010110101 1 01111 111011101 101111 11010111001101 11 11110111 01111 110010110101 11 11110111 11 11110111 01111 111011101 101111 11010111001101 11 11110111 111 1101 1 0111 101 1 0111 111 101 1 0111 111 101 1 0111 111 101 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; i, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words from, before at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word reach at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Before I Met You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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