This is an analysis of the poem Instead Of Promoting Self Hatred that begins with:
If their parents had reasons,
Why they disliked themselves......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110 110101 11100100 10110101010100 010010011010 01001011001010 110111101101 1110100100 1101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, to are repeated.
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