This is an analysis of the poem Mentally, Physically And Spiritually Sick that begins with:
No.
They don't want to talk about it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBCDB XeXXfXgf aBBCDB ghg gbhf eibXgbjbXgXjhj aBBCDB hgag Xggg ikXgbXaBBCDgghik
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,3,4,14,6,4,4,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101010 01 001010 100010 1111010001 1101011010 1010101100 01000110010 11110111 01101111 010011000 10010100 110000011 1 11101010 01 001010 100010 1111010001 101100110001 1010 111010 10110011 1101010 1011101 0111 101110100 101011111 11111101 11101 10111110 001111111 11011010 011101 10101100 011011 11110110 10110100 1101111110 0101100100 1 11101010 01 001010 100010 1111010001 1000100 011001100 111111 1001010011 1111010 111010010 011 0111 111001 1110010001100001 1101110100 100011 010110001 11 11101010 01 001010 100010 1111010 00100101010 1001001100 1 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
The author used the same words tell, these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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