This is an analysis of the poem Am I Allowed that begins with:
Am I allowed
To wish not to breathe? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACaADEfG AGACAAHI AJAKaALHH AGACAAHI AJAKaALHHXABACaADEfG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,9,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 01101 1101 0110011 1 1101 1001 10011 1 1101010 1101 01111 1101 101111 1101 10001 111111 1110110 1101 11100 1101 011111 1 1101 01111 10011 11101 1101 01111 1101 101111 1101 10001 111111 1110110 1101 11100 1101 011111 1 1101 01111 10011 11101 1101 01101 1101 0110011 1 1101 1001 10011 1 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word am at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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