This is an analysis of the poem Don'T...Look At Me that begins with:
Whenever you're out all night,
And I sleep alone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB AC AAaDE AAAaEAAAaE ABAA ACAaAAaDE AAAaEAAAaE AAAaEXAAAaE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,10,4,9,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 11101 1101111 11111 10111111 11111101 1 0101111 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111 0101111 11101 1111 1111 1101111 11111 1111 1 10111111 11111101 1 0101111 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111 1111 1111 1111 1 111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same words i, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines don't is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase don't connects the lines.
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- summary of Don'T...Look At Me;
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