This is an analysis of the poem Just To Say You Can Be Beaten that begins with:
To feel each minute,
You are not in it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbcXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 11100 111111111 111100100 01101 10101010100 111110101 110011001010 110110100011 1011110101 11101 10111010 01001100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you is repeated.
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