This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Get On My Nerves that begins with:
My love ain't sittin'
Waitin' to be givin'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cd be ff cd ed gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 100010 110101 01 1001101 11 01 10100 01011 0101 100101 11111 11110 11110 11111111 11111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 44
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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