This is an analysis of the poem I Aint Been 'Right' Since that begins with:
Just throw me any compliment you wish,
With superlatives dripping with adverbs and adjectives....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcb dX ECcXBAF a dgc cchXad dbXfi ECcXBAF cggXfXaiX dbfhXX ccXacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,7,1,3,6,5,7,9,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010011 00100100101100 110111010110110 011011 110001 0101 11100110 1111 11010010111 1 10 111100111 00111 010110 10111001 11111111 111011 100110 01011101 0111010110010 10111010 11111001 10111 111101 10111101 1101001 10101101 01011110110 11 1111 11010010111 1 10 111100111 00111 010110 01000 11001000 11111 111011 1010110 1101 0111111 111010011 111111 11011 1111001 111011 1 1101110 01111010010 1101000101 1 111 111010 11111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ago is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.
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