This is an analysis of the poem My Disappearing Act that begins with:
If I have offended you,
That can only mean one thing! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcX addXX ccXccXX bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 1110111 11001101011 00010101 1001011011010 1010101 1111111 1111101 0101001 111 1111111 1101011010 10111101 10011101 11 10111010 11110 111111110 1111110 10110010 1111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines saying is repeated).
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