This is an analysis of the poem Words that begins with:
I HAD this thought a while ago,
'My darling cannot understand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbbcXcXdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 11111111 001101 11110001 01111101 0100101111 110101 1100111111 11010101 011110011 110111 11111111 11110001 11111101 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my is repeated.
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