This is an analysis of the poem What Is This Between Us That We'Ve Got that begins with:

I can not wait until,
You permit to say okay......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABCD EFE EFE ABCD EFE ABE EXEff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1010111 0010001 101 111101 1010111 0010001 101 100011111 01011 100011111 100011111 01011 100011111 111101 1010111 0010001 101 100011111 01011 100011111 111101 1010111 100011111 100011111 100011111 10111 1010101100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; what, this, between, us, that, we've, got are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.

    The author used the same words i, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines got is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words kiss, got at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of What Is This Between Us That We'Ve Got;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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