This is an analysis of the poem Do I Appear To Be Desperate that begins with:
You did...
Show me heights of your disrespect....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAcabcb DBDXaddBaX ABAcbcbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11101101 110 101100011 010 010010111 10101010 111001001 111 110100100 111 1111101 11011 11010101 10111 110100100 11010001 01011100 10 11101101 110 1111100 111 1011100 0110010 0010010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
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