This is an analysis of the poem A Ritual To Read To Each Other that begins with:
If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcbc XcdX dcXc cede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110101011 11110101011 0101101101001 1100011111111 1101001010001 0111010101 1001010010011 1010110101 11100011011001 101100101101 110101100101100 011011110101 11101001010100 001010100111 111111011010 100101100111001 10001010110001 1010110100101 01011111110 10101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; or is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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