This is an analysis of the poem If I Really Cared For You that begins with:
I'm not that one to tell you,
Someone else you love......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABAAdedfe ABAAdfaf ABCdaaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 11111 101 0111011 11111 0010111 111 01 11111 1101 0001 1101 0111011 11111 0010111 111 01 111110101 01 111 0111011 11111 101 01 0110111 1101 1110 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of If I Really Cared For You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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