This is an analysis of the poem Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines that begins with:
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example,'The night is shattered...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A XX a Ab ac ba Ad dd dc Xd dc aX de Xa de adXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110101 111001010 10111000100 0110100111 011110101 1101011111 11101110011 11001101100101 1110111101 1111110111 011110101 011111100111110 0100111101010 1011001110010 110101111110 01010110101 0010010110100010 110110110110 111010110100 11110110101 011100011 1011111001 11101011011110 111010101010 010100010111001 010110010001 111010110110110 1011010011 0111101110011 110110110110 100011111110 11011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, have, loved, to, my, same, love, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word her at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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