This is an analysis of the poem No Return that begins with:
I like divorce. I love to compose
letters of resignation; now and then...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXX XXcXbX XXcaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111001 1001010111 1110110010 1110101101 1110100101 0101110101 1101011110 01010010 10110111011 110110011 0101010111 1111011111 1111011100 1101001001 11011010101 1100100101 1001100111 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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