This is an analysis of the poem Each Time You Ask Me that begins with:
I am not going to tell you again,
What you should or should not feel....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab bcc XXb XXa Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111001101 1111111 111011 11111001 11110101110 11111101001 111111 101011111 111111100 11111101110100 1111110 110010111 111111 001101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, i are repeated.
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- summary of Each Time You Ask Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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