This is an analysis of the poem You Are Just Good To Me that begins with:
Most times I don't understand it,
When I am demanding......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDAD ECDAD fdf ECDAD ABCDADXCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,3,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 111010 11 001 11010 111001 11101010 10111 111001 11010 111001 1111111111 1111101 110111111 11101010 10111 111001 11010 111001 11111010 111010 11 001 11010 111001 11 11 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of You Are Just Good To Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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