This is an analysis of the poem Suspicious Minds that begins with:
Lately I've sat here afternoons
just listening to the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX XaX Xbc bXc Xde edX bdb bX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 110000 1001010 011011 1111 11010101 1111 010010 0111010 1111011 1111111 111110 01101011 0010110101 1110011111 001000100 111010 10001 1101000 111010100100 1110 10101 10011001011 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, could, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, my, that are repeated.
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