This is an analysis of the poem On Your Terms that begins with:
On your terms you want it.
On your terms you need it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBcdbe BbaXefbg h hhegXbbieja X XgXffX X biXa XhbX dc iX XXXjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,1,11,1,6,1,4,4,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 111110 111 1110011 111 00100110 10100 111 11110101 11010 110001001 111111001 110101010 1101011 0011001111 11110111 1001001011011 11010111 101 1101011 0111010101 01111101010 1110110111 1111101001001 010111011 10110101010010 1110 1110111 1110 01011101 011110000 0100111 11111011 101011 111110010111 0100 11110010 10011110011 1 10 011101 1011011 11011 11 1110101101111 11010 110011111 1 0010010 10 101011111 100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; on, your, terms, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word on 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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