This is an analysis of the poem If I'M Going To Be Intimate that begins with:
I, I, I, I...
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ACB adXXa dXcXX aBB ACB ABB aBB ADB ADBXADBBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,3,3,3,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 110100 11100100 1111 01000100 101000100 111 10010 11100011 10 1111 111010 010101 1 10 11100 1111 110100 11100100 1111 01000100 101000100 11111 110100 11100100 11111 110100 11100100 11111 1010 001000100 11111 1010 001000100 1111 1010 001000100 001000100 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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, be, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same words i, oh 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 intimate is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word intimate at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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