This is an analysis of the poem Try To Remember Some Details that begins with:

Try to remember some details. Remember the clothing
of the one you love ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdaXcedfaf XXXbgeeXXXcXge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101010010 00111 111010110100111 1011111011 1001010111111 1110101110 0011110 111011101011 1110100000111101 11111110101 111110101101100 11110110101010 1101111110 10010101101 01010101011 0110101 1011111 10010101111 0101101 10110 101010100 011001010100010 10001010011 111010110 101100010 111 0010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; their, and, no, they, have, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word try at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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