This is an analysis of the poem Today I Care that begins with:
At one time I cared less,
About your thoughts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABXA CDBECD cX bXbXXc cdXdf AXAggAadd fb AABXA CDBECD hcXhbadbbbXAAddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,2,6,5,9,2,5,6,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0111 111001 111100101 01011110100 111101 11010011 11011010 1101101101 01001010010 01111 1101011 11001 11111111011 01101001 10111010 1111010 010101 01 1010101010 11111010 111011001 101011101 1011101 110101 101110 110101 1110111 1111011 110101 110011 11010111 010111111 1011 1110101 111111 0111 111001 111100101 01011110100 111101 11010011 11011010 1101101101 01001010010 01111 101110111110 101010 0010010000 01110111110 101101 1010001 1001011100 111001 0110101 101 111111 0111 111110 0110100101 1011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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