This is an analysis of the poem I Am Not That Way! that begins with:
When I came to you,
I came to give my heart....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB aACbc Dddb bABAB XAAC DddadXbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 110111 11 010 111101 11 111111 0110100 11 1110010101 10000011 1110010101 1011100101 1 11101 110111 11 010 1 11101 11 111111 1110010101 10000 011 11 10010101 10111 00101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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