This is an analysis of the poem Too Busy that begins with:
Too busy rushing to get to the next 'high'.
Kept addicted and detached....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa aX ab Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010011 1010101 0101001 0101010100010000 110101001011 0101001001000 11011010 001000111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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