This is an analysis of the poem Do Not Tell Me You Are Psychic that begins with:
Why...
Are you exposing your 'butt', ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb aX X XcX dX dXcXXXXX X bXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,1,3,2,8,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101011 010 110111 110010101011 110100110100 1 11110 1101010101 1 111111110100 11 11 101110 1111 111010111 111011 01011010 01101010101010000 111110 11111110 11011111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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.
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