This is an analysis of the poem Just A Slave that begins with:
Just a slave and hooked with addictions.
And chased with a wish to escape, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDc dXabaX ABCCDcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 11001001 01101 1100101 101001 101001 10111 01101101 01110110 1001 110101000101 1101101110 101110010 11001001 01101 1100101 101001 1010011111 10101 1100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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