This is an analysis of the poem Narcissism Is A Sickness that begins with:
Narcissistic are those sick,
Who seek a power that they get....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcX Abdc Abab DBdB DBbB BBBDBXBBBDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010111 11010111 01011101110 10111 1010111 01100111 1110111 111011101 1010111 1111101 01010101 001010110 10100010 11010110 110111 0010101 10100010 11010110 11011111 011111001 110100 011111001 110100 10100010 0010101 110100 011111001 110100 10100010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 are repeated.
The author used the same words narcissistic, narcissism, sex at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wished at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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