This is an analysis of the poem Used Against You that begins with:
It has to be traumatic,
To have a comfort stripped from you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc deXbfe dghige XhXcgjea jfghha adfjefX igXeXgg hgeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,8,6,7,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 01010101 011110010100 1111000101 010010 0111111100 1111100 01010011100 101 10101 010001001010 011011111 110001010 0100 110111110 01110 111011101 11011 11100101111010 1011110111000 1 101 1110 1011 0101001100100 101111100100 110101101 1111 1110011 1110011 1111 10011100 1100101011100 0100100 10001010 110010101110 010100100101100 0100 101111 1101 1000011101100 101100010001010 11000111 11110100 1101 111101011110 101011010 11 101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, like, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Used Against You;
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