This is an analysis of the poem You Are Overdue that begins with:
If you are enforcing your own limitations...
It is a waste of time to get upset, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc adXa XbbXeceX XcXdec Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011010111010 0001010101 010101101 011111 11111100110 010011101 111010 11011110111 1010011100111 11001011010011 111000101 1001011101 111 011010 010101101 1110100110101 10111101 1100101010100 111010 11110011 111 0101010101110 1110110101010 1101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, to are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of You Are Overdue;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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