This is an analysis of the poem The Imperfect Lover that begins with:
I never asked you to be perfect—did I?—
Though often I’ve called you sweet, in the invasion ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbc dbefe ceXge bfedXbg bbXfaXfae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,7,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011000101 110111100010 01001110111 111001101010 100101111011 111101010110 11010100110 11111101010 01110100110 111101000110 1111011111 1101010001 110110011101 0101010011 10010011111 1111111101 0101001101 11110101010 1100010010010 11101110110 1011110101 11110111001 11110001010 10111111010 1111011111 11001111111 11100111111 1111111101 11110111111 100001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, you, and, our, me are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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