This is an analysis of the poem Never Ready For A Maiming that begins with:
I'm not a cough dropp popper,
To hide a tainted breath....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bcdX ee Xedf BEGAA cXBF BEGAA BF XHfHEEEfHdHdhIId
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,5,4,5,2,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 010101 011111 1111010 11101010 010100101 11101010 101111 1111 011001011100 11111110100 11111 10110 00111 110011 011010 0110101 1101 1010 11111 111111 11110011 11111010 110011 011010 0110101 1101 1010 11110011 11111010 0110011000 1101 110111010 1111 11110 11110 11110 1010 1101 110101110 1111 011101010 11 01110 01110 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words don't, no, i'm are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines panicked, ready are repeated).
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