This is an analysis of the poem Off My Best List that begins with:
If you want to stay on my back like that,
You'll be......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCABCBA ABCaBCBAABA aBCBabaBAABAXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111111 10 0101 10110110111 10 0101 10 01011111 10110110111 10 0101 00101110111 10 0101 10 01011111 0101 10 01011111 10110111111 10 0101 10 0100101 10 0101111 10 01011111 0101 10 01011111 10011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Off My Best List;
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- history of its creation;
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