This is an analysis of the poem You And I Could Never Fight As Rivals that begins with:
You and I,
Could never fight as rivals....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABAE fbf fb fX fX ABCD ABAEXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,2,2,2,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1101110 1101 1110111 111 1101110 111101 11111 11 1110101 1110110 11 1101011111 11 10101111101 11111 11111111 111 1101110 1101 1110111 111 1101110 111101 11111 111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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