This is an analysis of the poem Why I Stopped By that begins with:
Forget the things we both have done.
Forget our trading of nasty tongues....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCADE FGHFHFHIHJ KllKbkagehXh FGHFHFHIHJXABCADE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,12,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 011100101 011101 1110101 1010101 1010111 111 0111110 1101 111 01111111 1111 11010101 1000111 1011101 010111 1100010 1001111 11010101 1100010 10101110010101 11010010 1010101 111001010 0101111100 11 111101 1001101 111 0111110 1101 111 01111111 1111 11010101 1000111 1011101 010111 01011111 011100101 011101 1110101 1010101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; forget, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word forget is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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