This is an analysis of the poem Personal 'Affairs'! that begins with:
You are right!
I don't know how much, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCaX daa aceXe ABCfaXf af ecdXeX XadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,7,2,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11111 111011 1111010 101100101 01101011 010100 011001 1111001111 11101001 100111 01010 0101001 111 11111 111011 1111101 0011010010 10110 1001001101 1100100 1111000111 111101 001111011 10001111111 11100111 011101 01100110 11101 0010110100101 11110001101 1100101010001 1000101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, you, make connect the lines.
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