This is an analysis of the poem Pout On that begins with:
IwishthatIcouldrushtoyouandmakeitokay,
ButIcan'tdothatbecauseyou'renotfeelingthatway ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX ABAB bXXX ABAB CCDCCD XXXX ABAB ABAB CCDXXABCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100000000000 100000000000000 100000000000 100000000000000 11010111 110111110101 11010111 110111110101 1000000000001 100000000000000 100000000000 100000000000000 11010111 110111110101 11010111 110111110101 11 11 101011101110011 11 11 101011101110011 100000000000 100000000000000 100000000000 100000000000000 11010111 110111110101 11010111 110111110101 11010111 110111110101 11010111 110111110101 11 11 101011101110011 100000000000 100000000000000 11010111 110111110101 11 11 101011101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pout is repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 on is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sigh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pout On;
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