This is an analysis of the poem I'M Taking You Off My Best Friends' List that begins with:
I'm taking you off my best friends' list.
Yes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCBDA Xefegdgfd a AbCBDA aca bcd AXXa ffXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,1,6,3,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111111 1 11 0110110110 1111111 1101010 11101111011 00101 1111111 101101001 1 11111100101 1 11101101 110100101 11 010111111 1 11 0110110110 1111111 1101010 0100111101 001001 111111101 110101100 1101 1111011 010111111 1 01010101 11111111010 01 01 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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 exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; time, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, hello are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hello is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hello connects the lines.
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