This is an analysis of the poem Certifiably Delusioned that begins with:
I know,
You prefer the taste of your life sweet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBaX XXc ABCBaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11 101010111 111000100010 1010 1 1101010001000 11101000100011 11101010111 01101011110110 11 101010111 111000100010 1010 1 1101010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Certifiably Delusioned;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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