This is an analysis of the poem Under Pressures that begins with:
Stuck under pressures...
I have learned, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBc ABDD BEf Bgg DDDD ABBc ABDD BEfB DDDD ABEfB DDDDXDDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 111 11 01 11010 111 11 11 1100101 1111 100 1100101 011100 111 1111101 1111101 111101 1111101 11010 111 11 01 11010 111 11 11 1100101 1111 100 1101001 1111101 1111101 1111101 1111101 11010 1100101 1111 100 1101001 1111101 1111101 1111101 1111101 111101 1111101 1111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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, off, my, back, they've, been, dumped are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and 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 dumped is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dumped at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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