This is an analysis of the poem Being Driven Right Out Of My Mind that begins with:
You got me shook up and my mind is gone!
I go to bed with all my house lights on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABXCD AEAEBECDCF GHGHGHGAgAgAgA BECEDCEFXGHBHhHBagAgAgA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,14,23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 1101011111 1101001101 1101001010 1111 011101 1111111101 11 1101011111 11 1101001101 11 1111 011101 0101 101110 10 101011011 110 101011011 10 101011011 110 1010 0 1010 0 1010 0 1010 1101001101 11 1111 11 011101 0101 11 101110 10 101011011 11 0101011011 11 0101011011 11 01010 0 1010 0 1010 0 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; oh is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, i'm 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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