This is an analysis of the poem Not Nearly As Painful that begins with:
I remembered when I first had my virginity taken away.
It was a frightening experience....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cXcX XdeXXfegXb X dfX ehc X haXg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,10,1,3,3,1,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111101001001 0101000100 11110111 11101010 11101 11110011000 0101011010 1 1111011 101010 11001111110 1111101 1001 110000100111110 1 1110111100101 110 111101001 10101 111101010100 11110111 1111111010 1110110 111 11 010110 110101010010 1011 1111 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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