This is an analysis of the poem Why Do I Keep My Head Up? that begins with:
Why do I keep my head up?
And my eyes looking forward? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdad edffeda X cdXXbcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1111010 00101011 011011 110111 0101 0110101011 1101 111111 10100010 101110 101011110 00010001010100 110101011010 111011 111011 1111001000111 111110010101 1111101011 11000101010010 11110111011111 11001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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