This is an analysis of the poem My Body And My Mind that begins with:

My body and my mind...
My body and my mind are in depression because...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bc Xad X XbX XcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,1,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110111 1101111001001 11101 11111111011 11110011111111101 01111101111101 1100101 1110101111101011 111011111 0110101110101110 1101111101010 00101 110100101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, you, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, how are repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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