This is an analysis of the poem I Remember You As You Were that begins with:

I remember you as you were in the last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the still heart....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb acdb XcefXfedb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111000110 1001101011 01101001111 10110010011 101110101 011011111111 110010111110 11101101011 11111001010011 11010011101 0111110110 1110110110 10011001 11000101010011 0111101010010 110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, in, my, your, of are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word soul at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of I Remember You As You Were;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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