This is an analysis of the poem You Murdered My Love that begins with:
If you are still here,
And I awaken screaming....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbacdeXXcd X decX b X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,4,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 1101010 1110100011 11101 11101 101101 111101010 01101101 101011010 10111 101011011 001 11010110111010 1111101 111001 011010010 1110011110 11 111100101 110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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