This is an analysis of the poem I Just Know This Is 'Not' Your Best Effort that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXX XcdeXXfX aXebaaXegX bcfbd bcgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111011 0101001001 110110 0111010100 1 11011011 11 101010 10101 10100010010 100101 1 101100101 110111 1101111 00110101100 1111111001 01010001 110001 111011 10100 10101 10100100 1110011110 1001011 01011100100 10010101 10111 11001010001 1110011110 1000 1 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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