This is an analysis of the poem In Expensive Doses that begins with:
Stop emptying your pain on me.
I can get emotional, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXb Aab cXddaa XXceee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 1110100 00100010 11001111 01000011 111111010 110101010 1100100 001010 0111110 1011 1101 11010 1010001 11110 11010101 1111 010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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