This is an analysis of the poem Whatever You Thought Of Me As The Messenger that begins with:
Shun me more than once you've done.
And criticized me in front of everyone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXccdXbXdXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111111 11011010101 110101111 1100100 00010001111 10111001 101011001011 110110110100 011010 101101 1100110 10010010 10101000101 110010110101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you is repeated.
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