This is an analysis of the poem Lost, Confused And Refusing To Admit It that begins with:
Toxic is a scrambled mind that sits,
Lost, confused and refusing to admit it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXc bXacaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010111 10110100010 01101010101 110111010 011101010100 1010 10101000100100 1010010010101 011110100010 01101000110 10010010111 000100010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with is repeated.
The author used the same word toxic at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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