This is an analysis of the poem You Played And Sang A Snatch Of Song that begins with:
You played and sang a snatch of song,
A song that all-too well we knew;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeXefefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 110110101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11011001 11010001 11000111 11110111 11111101 11010111 11010111 01010101 11010111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you 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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