This is an analysis of the poem What Is Now On My Agenda that begins with:
If I can not love you,
Like I did when I did......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddd dbXbef gbgafXf bXb abec XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 110110 1111 111101 1010100 011111101 01 11010 110111 0010101010 11001 11111100101 0111011010100 010101111 1001001011 01100110111 11 11010001011010 010010 11110 111 1101001 00111 011111 110110 1110011 0111 111100100101 1010110101 0100111101 111000110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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