This is an analysis of the poem I Didn'T Sell To You What You Bought that begins with:
Why are you so insensitive?
'Insensitive? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bbcdX XdceeXe aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,5,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 1000 110101111 11110101010 1101010001001 1110101 100 010 100101001 01101110 11100101010010 1011010 010011 1011101001101 01100100 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
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