This is an analysis of the poem Champion Of My Own Dilemmas that begins with:
I don't need to look for a fight.
I'm too busy beating up myself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACA ABACA adabd eaeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 011010111 01001111001 11101111 0101111001101 11101101 011010111 01001111001 11101111 0101111001101 1110101 0111010 11011101 10100111 0100011010 1 0011100101 1111011 01100010 101010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word overnight at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Champion Of My Own Dilemmas;
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- idea of the verse;
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