This is an analysis of the poem If I Had One More Chance To Love that begins with:
I tried to think of reasons,
Why I should keep love away....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXb cdeb bXf bcffd ABceXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1111101 10111111 0100111 1011001 111101 1111111 11 111111 111110 01 11010101 111101 11010101 01111101 11 1101010 1111101 1 0111111 11110101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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