This is an analysis of the poem Targets that begins with:
There is something about a headache,
That keeps me from wanting one....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbaXccdXdXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011 1110101 1111001001 1001100 1111 11011110010 11000101010 110101010010 110011111 1000100111 011010 1110 11111010 111110 100100 101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; have is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of Targets;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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