This is an analysis of the poem I Guess I Could that begins with:
I guess I could...
Be with you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABACdECBEC ABAC ABACdECBEC cAFbcAFXXABACaBdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,4,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 001 11111 11100 1111 001 11111 11100 1 1000111010 1111010101 11 1110111110 11111100111 1111 001 11111 11100 1111 001 11111 11100 1 1000111010 1111010101 11 1110111110 11111100111 1101101110 111001011 001 1101 0101101110 111001011 001 1101 1111 001 11111 11100 11111 001 1101101 1101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, you, me, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Guess I Could;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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