This is an analysis of the poem You Were The Topic Of Our Conversations that begins with:
I didn't know that about you?
'I never knew you had the interest? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX X XX XBaX XbXBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011011 1101110100 100101100100 101101 111 10010011000 11111100110 11 11101011 11010111 11111010010 110011001111 11010101 11 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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