This is an analysis of the poem You Don'T Know 'Nuthin' About Me that begins with:
People are known to become very protective,
When something they have done is suspected......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cbbd dDEX caff XXcccX X fdDEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100110010 1101110010 0001001010100 01100010101 111110 0101110010000 0100110010100 1011111101101 1111 11110011 11111110100 010010010101000 101101101 1011100111111 1010100101101 1110110011 111110 10110101110 1000101101111 0101010010 11110110111001 1101110000 0101110101001 11 1111 11110011 11111110100 010010010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, me, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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