This is an analysis of the poem Damage Control that begins with:
Did you know my heart ached?
And felt broken into pieces...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcabadeebXbXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 11100010 110100111 111011 111110001 1101 0111111 1011 1111011 1111 11111000111 01100011 10101 11101001 11110111011 11110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 is repeated.
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