This is an analysis of the poem Deleted that begins with:
The last time you said no,
And I agreed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacbdd bcaaddX ebbffXXXABeceb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 1101 110100101 10100 1100111000010 1101001 101110100 01011010 0110111010 1100101 1110011 111001101 11101 11101 111100101 1011010 11000101 11111111 1111 11101011 1001111101 011111 1101 10101101 111101000 11101 1000101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Deleted;
- central theme;
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