This is an analysis of the poem Someone Wants To Show Me Some Magic that begins with:
Remember when you stood on my foot,
With an expectation to hear me scream? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXdXXe XfaeX ghdfe gX XahdX a g hhXb heacXb gXXaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,2,5,1,1,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111111 0110100111 111101 101001 011101000 111010 11111001101 10010 1110101 1101 1111101010 1110101 01010 111001101 010111101 1101010101 111 011111101 111 11111001 1 10 101 1101 100011 11111111 00101 11110 110111100111 111 1111111 101011100 1011101 1 1 11010 10110 110110011001 01 1 10 101 1100101 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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