This is an analysis of the poem Only If You Want It That Way! that begins with:
I can make this deeper,
If It's deeper that you wish to keep it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcde abcdE fEdE DdE ABdE ABdE fabE fXdE DEcfEdEbede gABEddgEBEB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,3,4,4,4,4,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 0010111010 10 1 10011011 11101010 0010111010 10 1 10011011 1 11101 1 10011011 10111001 1 10011011 111010 0010111010 1 10011011 111010 0010111010 1 10011011 1 1110110 1 10011011 1 101011001 1 10011011 10111001 10011011 110 1 11101 1 10011011 001010 10111111 1 0101011 111 111010 0010111010 10011011 1 01101000101110 1 1011101 011010 1011101 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same words i, i'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word way at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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