This is an analysis of the poem You Asked For This that begins with:
You asked for this.
And every bit of what I have, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXAAC aXdXXcAAC XadXdcdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 110010111 01010010 1110 11 10 101011011 1100 111010 111 110100011 010100101 1110 11 10 11110 01111101 1101001101 11101001101 111101100 101010 111111011 10110100 10010100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word did at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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