This is an analysis of the poem Know Your Worth that begins with:
Don't sit and cry until your eyes dry.
Decide to go outside to satisfy, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXBXBbCbXaaBCbCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 0101110101 0101001011 0101111100 110101 1111 110100101 1 00101001111 1101111101 111 101011101 1111 01111 00101001111 111 111010100 111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, and, it, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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