This is an analysis of the poem That Would Make Me Not Like You that begins with:
I would like to...
Do those things with you to do....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaAbAacd AeeAfge AhAhiihbiXceDAfDAGHDAGHDAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1110101 1110 1110111011 1110 110011011 1110101 01111101 1110 11111010101 10111100111 1110 1101011000 111010010 11100100001 1110 1110101110 1110 0101111101 1110101 1010011011 1111001110101 01 111111111 1111 111110 1011 1111111 110111110 1011 1111111 11010 101 1011 1111111 11010 101 1011 1111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to, i, you, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that 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 you is repeated).
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