This is an analysis of the poem When We Were Happy that begins with:
Give me nothing but your love.
Love to get like you use to give it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBa cXcc cdBda XXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 101111010 1111 0110010000 110011011 111101 1010111 1011110101001 1110111110 1111 1111 11110100010 11111110100 00010 11010 011010 011010100011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that's is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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