This is an analysis of the poem I Like You Calm, As If You Were Absent that begins with:
I like you calm, as if you were absent,
and you hear me far-off, and my voice does not touch you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDAACEACBFFCXBAEAB XABCDAACEACBFFCXBAEAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010 1111111111111 011111110010 0110111111 1111110110 110110110 1011111010010 11011101 1111101010 11010010010 11111111111 1101111110 11101100110 110111101 111111000 11001111011 1111101010 1011010101 111110010010 111111101001 10110010 1111101010 1111111111111 011111110010 0110111111 1111110110 110110110 1011111010010 11011101 1111101010 11010010010 11111111111 1101111110 11101100110 110111101 111111000 11001111011 1111101010 1011010101 111110010010 111111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 932
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, my, as, i, calmed are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, you, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spirit, silence are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word so at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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