This is an analysis of the poem Stuck In The Middle And Feeling Sad that begins with:
What is it that you need,
To interrupt your love for suffering? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CdEd DDAD DDAD AB DDAD CdEd AB DDAD DDADXDDADDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,2,4,4,2,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 0101111100 111010 100 111010 1010 1001000010 111010 100101101 110100 1001000010 111010 100101101 110100 100111 0101111100 11001000010 111010 1100101101 110100 111010 100 111010 1010 100111 0101111100 11001000010 111010 1100101101 110100 11001000010 111010 1100101101 110100 11001000010 111010 1100101101 110100 110100 110100 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you, lack, discipline are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same words stuck, you're 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 discipline is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word discipline at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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