This is an analysis of the poem If Not For June that begins with:
If not for June,
My memories of Winter in December......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXddA AdbXaaA cXcXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 11000100010 001010 010001111 11101110 1010101100 0111 0111 1111101 10101010 01110011111 10111011 110011110101 0111 101111110100101 011001000111 1100011110 00100111001 00110101110 011101001001 11101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; not, if, 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 word if 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 june is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word june at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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