This is an analysis of the poem My Back Is Up Against A Wall that begins with:
My back is up against a wall,
And......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAcBdEfAbAcBC CCcGbH CCcGbH AbAcBdEfAbAcBC AbAXAbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,6,14,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1 0101111 1 1110101 0 100100 1 11010101 1 0101111 1 1110101 01011111001 0110011001 10111111011 1 0010011 1 111111110 0110011001 10111111011 1 0010011 1 111111110 11010101 1 0101111 1 1110101 0 100100 1 11010101 1 0101111 1 1110101 01011111001 11010101 1 11010101 1 11010101 1 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i, not, to are repeated.
The author used the same words it's, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word shaking at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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