This is an analysis of the poem If It Makes You Feel Good that begins with:
Whatever your favorite perception may be...
You should keep it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBC DEBC ddbCFaAGCb FHI JII CFaAGCb DEBC FHIXJII
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,10,3,3,7,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110001010 1110 001110 110001101111 1101 1110 001110 11001011 10110010 11 1101111 1011010 1 1111 111011 0011001 1 110010001111101 101110 1111011 11001000111111 110010100 110101101101 1101111 1011010 1 1111 111011 0011001 1 110001101111 1101 1110 001110 110010001111101 101110 1111011 11001000111111 110010100 110101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you, to, and, we are repeated.
The author used the same words whatever, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word good at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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