This is an analysis of the poem Now Or Ever that begins with:
You've excluded me from depictions,
Of how your perfect life should be lived....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBAC CBCbcd edaX ABBAC FGE XghXh FGEd XaXgX CBCABBACXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,5,3,5,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010 011011101 10100010 110 01100 010110100010 111000001100101 10011 10010110111010 10100101 100100100 11111010000111 010100101010 101010101 110011101110 101010010 011011101 10100010 110 01100 11100101 11111010010 111001011 1011011 101011101010 101101 001001001 1101111 11100101 11111010010 111001011 110111100 1110110101 1110011101001 111010100 11010100010 101101011 010110100010 111000001100101 10011 101010010 011011101 10100010 110 01100 01110011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, to, you are repeated.
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- summary of Now Or Ever;
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