This is an analysis of the poem Us I Like that begins with:
Us I like...
From Sunset to Sunrise, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcbX Abdee AffXe Abdbd AfAfe ABbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 011011 010 11010101 1111101 00111 011111 1010100 010101001 0010011101 111 101110010 101110010110 101100110 11001011000 00111 110 0110011 1101 1010010 111 001111 00111 100111001 11111010111 111 011011 110101 101001101 10101100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and, to, us, it, like are repeated.
The author used the same word us at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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