This is an analysis of the poem You And Your Body that begins with:
WHOM is your boy going to for advice?
Tough Johnny Jones at the end of the street,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeee efefgg hchccc icicdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100101 1101101001 1101110101 1011001001 1111011001 1101011001 1011101101 1111101100 1101111011 1001001011 1101011111 1011011011 10011110010 1111011011 11111010010 1001111001 0000011111010 11110010010 1001001101 1011011101 1011011111 0011111001 1111101011 01101111100 10110011110 1111111011 01010010010 11011101110 1101111001 10001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, him, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, whom, don't are repeated.
The author used the same word whom at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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