This is an analysis of the poem Infinitely, Before You Arrived that begins with:
You can not borrow from my time,
Infinitely....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbabbCDEEF cddF AbbCDEEFF bFbF bFbF bFbF bbXFbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,4,9,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 1000 1000 1000011111011 1000 1000 1000011 11011101010 011001010 11101110 01101 111111101 1101110 1010 01101 11111011 1000 1000 1000011 11011101010 011001010 11101110 01101 0111111 1000 01101 1000 0111111 1000 01101 1000 0111111 1000 01101 1000 0111111 1000 1000 10010 0111111 1000 1000 1000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (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; infinitely is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word infinitely is repeated.
The author used the same words you, infinitely 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 infinitely is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words arrived, side at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase infinitely connects the lines.
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- summary of Infinitely, Before You Arrived;
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