This is an analysis of the poem If You Forget Me that begins with:
I want you to know
one thing. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bXcXcdXXaebefg agf Xgga hbihXedgdbih Xgdgedgjhjhbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,3,4,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11 11100 011 101011011 001101110 011 1010 01001 101010001 10110101 10101101 010110 0101 11 0111011111 11 01011011101 11110110110 0100 1011 11111 11101010101 0110111 01010 110111 1101 011101 0011111 010 1111 1110 11111 111011 010101 1 011 110 111111011 0010010 011010 11011011 111111 0111100010 011000101010 111111010 111111000011 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, little, you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word if 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 me is repeated).
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