This is an analysis of the poem A Place To Stay In Your Head that begins with:
You bare those burdens,
Of carrying your own demons....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABcadX eccXf egfaXh AABdbi Xaih X bXgd XXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,6,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 01001110 0010001111 1111101 0010110 101001101 10011100010 110001100 0010001 111010101 11101 010100010010100 11111010 1100111 01110110100 110101 1010111101 1101111100101 11110 01001110 0010001111 101011110001 111010101 101010 111110010 00100010 11110101011 0101101000 1111111 1110011 1 111 001000101100 1111 1 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, you, they are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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