This is an analysis of the poem Your Last Line...It Does Not Rhyme that begins with:
I've been accused of not giving.
When that is all I've ever done....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdbX eXcebfX bX Xdb XX fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,2,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 11011101 1100010101010 11110 101001011 0100 11010 11111011101 10111010 1110 01 11010111010 01111010 111101010110 111 01110 1111001101010 1111011101 1101 1 11110 0111011110100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
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; i've is repeated.
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