This is an analysis of the poem Nothing That I Do Has You In Hindsight that begins with:
I do not know who's reality,
You believe I could be living....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110100 10111010 11011101 101101111011 1010010110010 1011111011 1010111101 010100 000101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nothing is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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