This is an analysis of the poem You Look At Me As If You Are In Disbelief that begins with:
Don't be ridiculous.
Of course I missed you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cdXd eXbXecd efegX deXf ebdeXag Xdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,7,5,4,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 01111 110100011 110110 1110111101 10110100 0111101 110 110111 1 111 1110101 100010 111111 111101111 111011101000 1101 1111 1110 1 1100 01101001 1111111 11101111 011100011 11111110101 010 1 101010 101001110 111110110101 01 110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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