This is an analysis of the poem The Guys You Like that begins with:
I'm not the kind of guy,
You say you like....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCC defCC gdXhXig feffhbhfhfXbaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1111 11 11 010101 111 1111 11 11 00110111 011100111 111110111 11010010101 1111010 110011101 110111 01011101 110111101001 1111 1111 10111 111010111 110111000110 011111 1010101 01110100100101 0101011111 11010111 11101110101011 011100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words uh, i'm are repeated.
The author used the same word i'm 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 huh is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word huh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Guys You Like;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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