This is an analysis of the poem I Ain'T Dead Yet that begins with:
Time was I used to worry and I'd sit around an' sigh,
And think with every ache I got that I was goin' to die,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcacdc bbeecacdc ddffcacdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110111 1101001111111001 110101000101001 11000100111101 111000101010001 111111011 1 1 1 1011101111101010 1110101110101010 11110101110001 101010101011101 101011101010111 1110111001 1 1 1 11010101010111 11010101011101 101110101010111 101111101111101 11010111111111 1011111111 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, i, an', i've are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word yet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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