This is an analysis of the poem Forget About Who Did What To Get that begins with:

Enjoy the feeling of being healed.
And mended....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcaXdbaBbefb BfBebcCCCBcCCCXBcdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100101 110 0101000 1010101 01101100111 011111010 001000111001 0010110101 1010101000001 010110101 101110011001 11 01010100 0100110101 010110101 100110101 11010110101 1000101 1010110101 01 011 1001101 0111111 11010110101 01 011 1001101 0111111 010110101 01 10101101 010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    The author used the same word forget at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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