This is an analysis of the poem Just To Hear Your Story Being Told that begins with:
Stay up all night,
If you are the type......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDE AaeEF AXaceX edE AE AAaeEF ABACDEedEXAEFeAEFeAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,3,2,6,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 01101 1111011 11110 1101101 01110101 10111001 01101010101 1011111001 101110101 101110 1101 01001011111 1111000 11101 1111101 11101 1110101 0110011 101110101 1101 101110101 1111 10111001 1 1101 101110101 101110 1111 01101 1111011 11110 1101101 01110101 011011 0011 101110101 1101 011110001 101110 1 1101 011110001 101110 1 1101 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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 three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, story are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word just is repeated.
The author used the same word stay at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word told at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Just To Hear Your Story Being Told;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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