This is an analysis of the poem It Wasn'T Meant To Be What It Was that begins with:
It wasn't meant to be what it was to keep.
Yesterday and those days before....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbACX bX ACdde AbaXX AffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010010101 10111101 01010010101 111010011101 010100111 110110101 1111011000 01010010101 111010011101 010100111 1010100101 1010010101010 01010010101 1010111101 01010010101 0110101 01001010100 01010010101 1111000010101 11010010010 1011011011010 0101001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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