This is an analysis of the poem You Do Not Have To Be Insulting that begins with:
Back in the day,
When my portrayal of a waning youth......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXc cXbcXX aX XXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1101000101 1001010101100 10100011001011 01001 10100100 111011010101 0111101 01010101001 1100110101 11001110001 1101111011 00111 011 1110111111 1 110010111010 110101 11101 010 111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
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- summary of You Do Not Have To Be Insulting;
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- idea of the verse;
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