This is an analysis of the poem I Once Couldn'T Get Enough Of You that begins with:

It's strange how you aint on my mind no more.
Strange I don't feel you, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdd cXdXXX efegbddfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111111 11111 111111 11001011101 0001 1010101101 111 010111110111 11100111101 0011101 010100111101 0111011 010111101 1111101010 0101101 1111100 101011001100 1111010101 111111111011 101011 110101 01110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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.

    The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of I Once Couldn'T Get Enough Of You;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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