This is an analysis of the poem Nobody Ever Can Be Better Than You that begins with:
Nobody ever can be better than you.
Unless you express this and confess....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAcAcDda aEAEAfDda AbAcAcDda aEAEAFDDA aEAEAFDDAXdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101011 011010101 11110101011 0111101001 11110101011 00011111001 111101010 1101010 11101011 111101011 1001111001 11110101011 10011111101 11110101011 1101111001 111101010 1101010 10101111 11110101011 011010001 11110101011 011110001 11110101011 000111001 111101010 10101010 111101011 11101011 1001111001 11110101011 10011111101 11110101011 11011101001 111101010 10101010 1010101011 11010101011 1001111001 11110101011 10011111101 11110101011 11011101001 111101010 10101010 1010101011 111101010 00111010 1010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, better, nobody, than, be, ever, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nobody, never are repeated.
The author used the same words nobody, no 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 you, better are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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