This is an analysis of the poem Defending Your Ability To Become Offended that begins with:
You've already planted in your head,
Not to listen to a thing I've said....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC AABC cXXa Xc XdcXaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010011 101000111 11001101 1011101101 101010011 101000111 11001101 1011101101 111001 1101010 1010101 01010100001010 11110 110110 1101111011 10001 1001000111 111101010 011101011 1011101 0011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word you've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word yet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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