This is an analysis of the poem Heartaches Mean Nothing that begins with:
Heartaches mean nothing,
To those who mean nothing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABCdc ebXX ABXbcb eb AAABCdc ABbbXAAABCdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,6,2,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 011110 111110 11101 101 1 01 101010 11111 1010010 11010001 110110 1111101 111110110000 01000111 10110001 001 0101110 1100001 100110 011110 111110 11101 101 1 01 110110 1111101 11111101 0011100 100110 011110 111110 11101 101 1 01 1 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (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; mean, nothing, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing is repeated).
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- summary of Heartaches Mean Nothing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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