This is an analysis of the poem Like A Sponge that begins with:
One day you will realize,
You have become saturated with my love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbcdXedcbea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101 11011010011 1101 11101111001110 0011011000100 1001101001101 10111010101 110 1011100010011100 1001101 1101001001011010 10111111001 1110001000010101111 10111101011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; you, have, to are repeated.
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