This is an analysis of the poem That Ain'T About To Happen Here that begins with:
Just because you do not see my scars...
Or I do not brag about the wounds I've suffered, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbd beefXg XhgigfXaggi dafXiahb fbfghc FGGabagaibeXFGGg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,11,8,6,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111 111110101110 111 11000101 11111010110 1010110 101111001 011110 111011 0110 111011011 110 101001 11011001 1011100010100 101010111 010101110 111010 11110100110 010001101 110100101 0101001101 11110101100 11101 011010011010 111111 10111011 010101011 1 11111101 11110111110010 001 11110010 0101010110101 1 11010101 11 011010 1010 11111010 1111101 01111010 100100101 1110 111110110 010100101 11101011 11 011010 1010 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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.
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