This is an analysis of the poem You Do This To Me that begins with:
I can do without you.
But my life, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abacd ABEFA gHCD HABEFA gHCDXea HCDXHABEFA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,6,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 111 011 1111 11111010 111011 1111111 110101 110011 11111 1 11001 111101 0111010 11001 111011 1111111 110101 110011 11111 1 11001 111101 0111010 111111 10 01 11001 111101 0111010 11001 111011 1111111 110101 110011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 word you is repeated.
The author used the same words i, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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