This is an analysis of the poem Mental Beatings that begins with:
Sitting mellowed out or not upon a couch.
With a peace one has, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDBEBDCF ABCDBEBDCF BGBG ABCDBEBhBGBG bihBGCBGCBGCB CB cB CB XhBFBFBiBXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,4,12,13,2,2,2,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110101 00111 111 1110 10110101001 11010 101 0010 1001100010 1100110001 10101110101 00111 111 1110 10110101001 11010 101 0010 1001100010 1100110001 1010100010101 101010001 1010100010101 101010001 10101110101 00111 111 1110 10110101001 11010 101 0 1010100010101 101010001 1010100010101 101010001 1011 11 0 1010100010101 10101010001 101 1010100010101 10101010001 101 1010100010101 101010001 101 1010 1101 1010 1101 1010 1101 1010 11011101 0 1010 1001 11010 1001 11010 1111 11010 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; mental is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mental is repeated.
The author used the same word sitting at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines beatings is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words rid, demean, beatings at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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