This is an analysis of the poem Starting Monday And Through Sunday that begins with:

I will love you like I love to have you,
In my dreams....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABABCC ABABCC DCECFFA gDCECFFAG aABABDCECFG DGhdAadGhDA ABABCCccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,9,11,11,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111011 011 11011111011 101 1101110 10111110 1011111011 011 11011111011 101 1101110 10111110 10111111 11111110 11101110 11011010 1010101010 110110 1011111 1 10111111 11111110 11101110 11011010 1010101010 110110 1011111 010110001 1 1011111011 011 11011111011 101 10111111 11111110 11101110 11011010 110110 010110001 10111111 101110101 1 110111111 1010101101 1 110111111 101110101 1 10111111 1010101101 1011111011 011 11011111011 101 1101110 10111110 10111110 101110 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; i, love, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words it, pursued at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Starting Monday And Through Sunday;
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