This is an analysis of the poem You Can'T Can Love that begins with:
I don't know how the fishes feel, but I can't help thinking it odd,
That a gay young flapper of a female eel should fall in love with a cod....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacX XXcX Xadd cbbbeB eB XBXeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111111001 101110001111101001 110101101010101 11111111011110101 11111101011111101 1111010111100111 101010101110101 111011010111111010 1011110111111000111 111000111111111111110 1001101010111100101 1001111011111001010 1111010111001000 1011100010001111101 111110101110001 111011110111100101 10 111010101011111 11000100010100101 001010010110101 1111111010001 11010111 1111111010101 11010111 1111111010001 11010111 1111111010101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, he, and, to, i, she, her, so, love, you are repeated.
The author used the same words so, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words hips, love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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