This is an analysis of the poem In Between Thoughts! that begins with:

I'm glad you chose me to lift your baggage.
You must have detected I was issue free....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcdebaebXXXecdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101110 11101011101 110010011 1100111010010 101110100 11110101010011 010 01010 10101 0111110111011 1111110010 110101011010 0110110 01011101111 111 11001110011 111 1011010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, that, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, i are repeated.

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  • summary of In Between Thoughts!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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