This is an analysis of the poem Unlike You that begins with:
Excuse me,
I apologize....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcD XefX dX ABcD aXbbXgX fg XeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,7,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 10101 110100 1110101 1111111100 1010111010100 111010 11110110100 0101101 10110010110 011 10101 10100 1110101 10 100010 011101110010010 11011010 101011011100 10111110 111110010101 1 100101 111101 11 1011 11110101 11011011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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