This is an analysis of the poem Just How Hysterical Are You? that begins with:
I love the renovations made to your home.
I see you have rid yourself of some furnishings....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xb X c XcdaEX fgX aEX h igaEX iX hcd X Xi XXibfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,1,6,3,3,1,5,2,3,1,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101011 111111001100 11010110101 1111011 111001100101 100 1 010 0110 1101110111 1101010111 0101001 1 110 11101 101110111 1101010111 0101001 1110100 1100101 110 101110111 1101010111 0101001 11 11010 1 1011110100 01111110 110100111 10 1101 11010100 01011001 110111 1101011 1 1101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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