This is an analysis of the poem I Didn'T Want It Around that begins with:

I sat and chatted with the fear I was given.
I had grown accustomed to it and grew tired....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXffXadeceXaXffcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100011110 111010001110 110001110 10110000101 1110110110 0010010 100111 1111010 001010 101010011 111010011100 110110 111001 110101011 0111000100 10110111011 111 1101 110011100 01101011010010 111011111101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, why, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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  • summary of I Didn'T Want It Around;
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  • history of its creation;
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