This is an analysis of the poem Suspicions In The Way that begins with:
Weren't we once in love?
Or was that just another game to play? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB DddeXce ADBDCDBDdXbXEBEBEB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 1111010101 1011111010 111111001 10110 11101010 10110 0010101 11100111 11110 0111 101101 10110 1111010101 10110 1011111010 10110 111111001 10110 1 010 001 11101 0010001 11101 0010001 11101 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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