This is an analysis of the poem You May Not Remember Me. But... that begins with:
The best advice ever given to someone,
Was probably solicited....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccd ceccXXa XfcdfeXf X X edcbcd aaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,8,1,1,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011010011 11000100 00101001010 100101100100 00100001011101 1 110001001 011000110010 10100010001 1 110010 101010101 1000010 10 1110101 1 1101111101 11011001 10110101110 101011101011 110101 01 011 1 01010110101 1101001 00101010 01110100 010100001100 110011 0101011 10010101 10101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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; to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hello is repeated.
The author used the same word hello at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hello connects the lines.
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