This is an analysis of the poem Not My Job Description that begins with:
I am suppose to be empathetic.
With a showing it to those, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabCD efcCD Xfcec babeae ggcgba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001010 0010001 1111011 11001 0111010010 11010101110 0111110110 1011101100010 11001 0111010010 1 0100011010011 110101000101 111001001001010 0010111001010 1101111111001 11111101110 110010001001 110100110010 1101010010001 1101001100101010 10101011001 011011010101101 010100111001010 111111010 011101010100101 111001110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word follow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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