This is an analysis of the poem Maybe There Will Be A Next Time that begins with:
Did you think I was chasing you?
Is that it? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXbBcbbdXce fdaXbbbbXefb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 010 11110011101 10101 010 1 101010100 011111 11010100 111010111 111111 1011111 1111101111 1011100100 1111101 111111111011 11101 11101 11011110011 10 10100011 11011011000101 11001 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, i, would are repeated.
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