This is an analysis of the poem My Eyes Have You In Them Too Much! that begins with:
My eyes have you in them too much!
I catch myself in vacant stares....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdA AefeffffdcfbcdcX AXegAXgcgcbfAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,16,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 11110101 010101011110 101010 11110011 11110011 11 111100101 0101 1100101111 11 1 01011 100 11 1 11000 0101010 1 111011 01000101 11110011 111111101 11 01111010 11110011 1 111011 1011101 11 001 110101 11110011 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; too is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, too, or are repeated.
The author used the same word my 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 much is repeated).
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