This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes My Mind Gets So Tired that begins with:
Sticking with my eyes,
With a sticking to see......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB dXd aEeaXXX aEaEaBF ABCBXaEaEaBF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,7,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 001001 10101010011 001 100010101101 10101010 001111 01 111110001101 1101110101111 101 1111 011101 1010100011011 01 111110001101 01 11110101111 01 10010111101 11111101110100 10011 001001 10101010011 001 01 111110001101 01 11110101111 01 10010111101 11111101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; sticking, i, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words sticking, sometimes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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