This is an analysis of the poem When My Mind Is Vacant that begins with:
I love it when my mind is vacant.
A feeling of no need to please, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD EE AFGG hhi fXjeeha AFGGi c XbXjhkX eXXjk ABCDXEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,3,7,5,1,7,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 01001101 01000011 0111110 1110101001 111101101 110111010 11011110 001001001111 11110111 1111110 010101010010 001011101 1000 1110 1111000110 101110 111100010010 1110111 010111011 110111010 11011110 001001001111 11110111 111110011010111 101101101010001 101001111 0010101010 110101110001 101001010010110111 10100001001101010 111010 1110010110101000101 1 1101001101 11101110 1 11110 110111010 01001101 01000011 0111110 1110101001 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, to, you, mister, pertillar are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, mister are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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