This is an analysis of the poem If I Don'T Drip Blood For You To Lick that begins with:
I wish I could come to the plate,
With a holding done to my bat......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbb aaXaX aXXXb XXbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 00101011 11101 1010010111 11111 11101101 010101 1011 010111 1111111 101111 1100101 01011 10111100 111110101 10110101 1111 011111 011111101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, i, you are repeated.
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