This is an analysis of the poem I'Ll Be Your Hostage that begins with:
You've driven me to senselessness.
And as a passenger sitting I do not object....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd XadaX XeX f XX Xfd eX X X A dX d gXX edfh X A gX ah bcX dhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,1,2,3,2,1,1,1,2,1,3,4,1,1,2,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101000 1101001011110 1101111101 001000010110 110010101101 110101000 11101000001001 11011100011010 1101110100001 111010110110 10 011 11010 1111 111010 1001100 1001 011 1010111010 101010 0111100 11001001 111 11111 100111101 11100101 111100101 10001 1111010110 111100111 101 11111111 1100011101 1001001111110 111101100 11111 11011010 10100101110 111 11011 10011 101110100 01011010 111 0101011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The author used the same word you've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I'Ll Be Your Hostage;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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