This is an analysis of the poem Dorothy D. that begins with:
I'm sick of 'musn'ts,' said Dorothy D.
Sick of musn'ts, as I can be.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaa XXXbXXXXXX ccbbaXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111001 1011110 010110101 110111001 0111110101 1111110111 11111111 11101101 110101101 11101101 110111101 11101110 11101111 111001001 1111011 1111100111 01010101 111100101 1111010101 1110101111 101011101 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, musn't, ', 'you, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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