This is an analysis of the poem If Someone 'stays' Observant that begins with:
For someone who has bruises on their head.
Two swollen eyes that are blackened....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcdaebb XbX beab XXbecbX ddb XX bb XffbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,3,4,7,3,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 11011110 111 101110101 1 111 0101100100010 11 0101 0111010 1 11 1111111 111101011 11101 10110101 1111001 11 111111101 111 11110001010 11 11111 111110 11 1101101 0100101 11111001 1101111101100 1101010 100010001 1 111011 111011 101101111100 1101010010 0001010111 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines car is repeated).
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