This is an analysis of the poem No Matter What The Feedback that begins with:

You've got to breathe.
No matter what the feedback, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDECF ABCDECF ghhXFGHIG ABCFGHIG CFXCFbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,9,8,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1101011 01011100 1011 1110101 1111010 111000101 1101 1101011 01011100 1011 1110101 1111010 111000101 1111 01 11 1011101 1011 111111 11111 0111001 011 1101 1101011 01011100 1011 111111 11111 0111001 011 1111010 111000101 1111010 111000101 11101011 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; you is repeated.

    The author used the same words you've, you 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 one is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words need, knees at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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