This is an analysis of the poem Who Decided To Laugh Away My Tears that begins with:
All this time you had your eyes fixed on me.
All this time you accepted their misguided evaluations....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd effghbXeh XX gXdhggXbbcdab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,2,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 1011010101001010 10110101011 10110001010101010 111011111 010110100101 111001 01011001010 11001 1110100 1101101011100 1011101 01011110 10100101010 01101001011 11011001001 101 1111111011110110 0111 11011 11001000101001 1011001010 1010010111 11101101 110110010110100 11 11010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; you, all, time, this, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is 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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