This is an analysis of the poem Ouch! It Still Hurts that begins with:
OUCH!
It still hurts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX X abc cX bXXb adXbcbXXXdccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,2,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 011 1101 11000101 11110 011001 11101 1101101 1110 111001 011011 111101111 1110 11111001 100100111 01 11101 110111010 111 111101010011 111 1111 1 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Ouch! It Still Hurts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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