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How many related phrases 1 phrase Can you divide it into No

It is just a phrase.
are here? smaller subphrases?

2 or more Yes
No
related phrases
Is it short-short-long? Yes
Sentence
Are the two phrases
Yes Repeated
identical and ending on
phrases
the same cadence?
No
Yes Parallel Period
Are there only 2 phrases,
Yes
and the first cadence is weaker Are the two phrases related by motives? Contrasting
than the second one? No Period
Note: each phrase in a period
No can be a sentence on its own.
Yes Some kind of irregular
3 Phrases?
phrase structure
No Yes
Yes Are the 2nd and 4th phrases ending with Repeated Period
4 Phrases?
cadences of the same strength? No
Double period
No
You’re not analyzing phrase structures anymore, go back and find smaller structures
(unless it is a doubled 3-phrase structure which almost never happens.

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