This is an analysis of the poem When You Are Done Feeding Yourself On Lies that begins with:
You have repeatedly shown,
You have no regard for me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXbcXXcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1110111 1111111 1001011011 1110 11101001010 1101 00101010 110100010 01011011100 1111101011 101010100111 001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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