This is an analysis of the poem You Can'T Love Me that begins with:
And,
You can't love me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCcXa dBCeF GHAi GHAai dBCCA dBCEF AjB AjB aBCCAXdBCEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,5,5,5,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111 1010 1111110 0101 11101 1 1111 1010 01011111 01000101 1010011010 10111010001 11111101111 1111111 1010011010 10111010001 11111101111 1 11111 1 1111 1010 1111110 01011101 1 1111 1010 01011111 01000101 0101100101 01 111011 0101100101 01 111011 1 1111 1010 1111110 01011101 1 1111 1010 01011111 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; i, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words there's, no, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words risk, me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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