This is an analysis of the poem Yesterday Perhaps But Today That Aint Happening that begins with:
I don't care who it is you listen to.
I refuse to hear your complaints, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcab accXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001100 10101101 0110011 011001 01110100110 1011100011 1010101101 1100010101 110100101101101 1010110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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