This is an analysis of the poem You Only Show Me Interest that begins with:
I would love to sit and spend more time with you.
Looking at life from your point of view....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcde eddX ceaffaa aXbae X a bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,7,5,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 101101101 101 11010100111 01001110 11100101110 1010 1110010 010110 0011111 01110011110 101101010101 110000110001 01 01 001010010001 11001101 111100101011 11110001 11011100 00001000101111 11011011111 1111 100111101 110100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of You Only Show Me Interest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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