This is an analysis of the poem Nit And Picked Too Long that begins with:
My love for you is gone.
You nit and picked too long....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBC ABBC dddDE BBCDEXaBBda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111111 110101 101101 111101 111111 110101 101101 1010100 10011101 1111101 10101 111 111111 110101 101101 10101 111 010011 111111 111111 010110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word my 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 long is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words belonged, calm at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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