This is an analysis of the poem When I Have Bouts With Depression that begins with:
I can get depressed.
The 'whoa-is-me'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdeafeghXg ijgX hfX jXgchf aaXdbXeheigeaX aebXdaX gX ahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,3,6,14,7,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 0101 11101 01101100110 101100 11 0111010010 01011010110111 01 1111 111101 1110101010 10110101000 0111 11110010 110111011101 11101 110111111 011101011 1100111 10111001101 1 111011001 01 110111110110 11111101101 0110111 11110101 11011110101 11100101 11101001001 1101010111 1111101001011 01 1111111101001 1101 110101 01010001 010010110000100 01011110101 0110 11111110101 01110100101 110110001010 000101000 11110101 000111001 0101100101 1110001 111 11100 0110010 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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