This is an analysis of the poem Little Green Buttons that begins with:
The honeymoon ended a decade ago,
If he still loves her he don't say so,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaabbXaabXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011000101 011101111 111001001101 101011010111 101101001 0010011110101 111011111 11011010111 111000101111 1110101000111 0111100111 111011010111 1111000101 11001011101 111001010001 01011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 722
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; her is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase so connects the lines.
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