This is an analysis of the poem Do 'Not' Use My Name that begins with:
I was once told some years ago,
By someone accustomed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaX cbXca dXeXb eebXX XcdfX XbfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 111010 01010001010 0101101 111110 11001100 1001010 111110111 011011110 001000110101 1111110101 101000101101100 0100101000 01101111101 010001001000100 11110110 10101101111 1111010001111 110100111011111 0100010011101 111110 10101100011010 111010101 1101101010001001 10100001110101000 111110 11110010 11101101 0111010 01101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with are repeated.
The author used the same word 'do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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