This is an analysis of the poem Only In Your Mind To Imagine that begins with:
Your wars are not mine to fight.
Nor are they to my neighbors......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX accX Xaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1110110 1110011 111010 110101010110 1100100100101 10100101111 0100110010 101010011 0101 1110100 1110011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Only In Your Mind To Imagine;
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