This is an analysis of the poem Addiction Free that begins with:

Don't come to me when you aint got nothing.
Begging for something from me....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDB EFGHII ABCDB EFGHII Xe jXjXb dhji EFGHIIXABCDBbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,6,2,5,4,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111110 1011001 11011101111 1010011 10101 1101100101 1100110000 111110110 110101 111001 101001 1101111110 1011001 11011101111 1010011 10101 1101100101 1100110000 111110110 110101 111001 101001 1111111 101010101100 110101111 110011011010 101111 11100101 11111101 11110101 010011 0101 11010001 1101100101 1100110000 111110110 110101 111001 101001 1101111110 1011001 11011101111 1010011 10101 1100 111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; you, to, and are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Addiction Free;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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