This is an analysis of the poem I Used To Be Afraid To Meet that begins with:
I used to be afraid to meet
The lovers going down our street. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 01010111 11010111 11110111 11010011 11011101 11110011 01110101 10111100 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, i are repeated.
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