This is an analysis of the poem Totally Messed Up that begins with:
What you say makes absolutely no sense.
You say some 'friends' had you convinced, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbaada acbXebdXb bbXeb ebbbabbcacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101011 11111101 1111111 000101010101 11011 110101101 011101110100 01011011 0010111110001 100 111111111111 1111101 100110011001 11001111 0101111010 1100100111 11101101111 010111101001 11100101101100 01011 110101 1110011 10111010 100101001001 1 1111001 1100111101 1110101 110110111 10101011111111 10110110100101 101000101001001 1010101 1010010001011 01011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, and are repeated.
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