This is an analysis of the poem In A Category All Your Own that begins with:

Would I cuss you out?
Or 'will' I cuss you out? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXaab abX aXXcXa ddXdeX cceaXffd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,6,6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 111111 0111 111010110001 11010101010 111100 1 110010010 111110110101 110010 111101010000 011 1110100011010 1010100010 11 11011011110 0011011 11101011011 010101010 110111110001101 01 1 110011110010111 1110011010101 1111010101111 11 1 100001111011 11011010011 001010111010 11001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; i, you, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out, you are repeated).

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  • summary of In A Category All Your Own;
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  • history of its creation;
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