This is an analysis of the poem You And I...Could Give Love One More Try that begins with:
How many wrongs have you known before?
How many times have you said, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB ABCB DBBE AbbafafaX ABCBXDBBEece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 1101111 1101 1011110 110111101 1101111 1101 1011110 1011111 111010111 011111 11001 110111101 1101111 01011101 11110101 10101110101 110101 1001 01 111110111 110111101 1101111 1101 1011110 1011111 111010111 011111 11001 1111 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word needed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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