This is an analysis of the poem John-John that begins with:
I dreamt last night of you, John-John,
And thought you called to me;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacad ababaeaead acacfgfgad Xhihfifiad aaaaajajad kfkflmlmad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 111101 11110101 101101 11110111 111111 11111101 111111 11110111 1101 01110111 100101 11110101 110101 11010101 110100 11111101 011101 11010111 1101 11110101 111101 01110101 110111 01011101 110101 11011111 011101 11011111 1011 11110110 101101 11101111 100111 11011110 111111 11010111 111101 10110111 1111 01010101 111110 01110101 110101 11010111 110111 11110111 1110101 10111111 1111 11110101 110001 11110001 000101 010101111 011111 11100101 111101 11111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; john, i, and, to, you, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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