This is an analysis of the poem You Put Me Down To Marry Into Pain that begins with:
I tried to tell you what I could do for you.
I tried to tell you that my love for you was true....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbAC ddbec eEEFe eEEFfXAAbACACACAbAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111111 110111111111 1 1011 1111010001 110111111101 110111111111 1 1101 0111010001 11111110 1110111 1111111 1011101 0111101 11111110 1110111 1111111 1011101 1010101 11011111111 110111111111 1 1011 1111010001 11011 11111010001 11011 11111010001 11011 1 1011 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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; you, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words i, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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