This is an analysis of the poem I Like For You To Be Still that begins with:
i like for you to be still
it is as though you are absent...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdcXaeaaXf AcgXCdhhXgbeXi ABXiXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 00111110 11110101 1111111 0111111101 1011011111 11111011 101001 1011 11111 010101 1111011010 1111001 111101 011111010 010110101 11110101 1111111 1110010110 1111010110 101101 10101 11101 001011010 11001001 101110 1111001 00111110 1011010 11101 11111001 1010 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul, silence are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase happy connects the lines.
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