This is an analysis of the poem What Have You Done To My Lover? that begins with:
You said you would 'always' love me.
It seems not too long ago....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC bddb cefcbd dXghX ff gfXe XdX bhXABCCf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,5,2,4,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 0111101 11 101000101010 101010101 110010 110100111 11101 111010010 111011001 111101101 11111 1001111 011101101111 100101010010 111100100010 1001000100 110100110 10111010100100 11111 11011101 1000 11011010 01011010 11101101 111000100111 1111100110 1101101 111 111110110 11111011 0111101 11 101000101010 1110101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, you are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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