This is an analysis of the poem You Don'T Live In The 'Hood' Do You? that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcDDA efghi afgbj aBcDDAdih X XiiiadXXd X Xckeela baeedda XX cgdc X dhgghmmbab X cled XX hjkh XXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,9,1,9,1,7,7,2,4,1,10,1,4,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0 1110010 1 101010 0010100001 101110100 110101101011 111 111101101 101101 1010111110101 111100010 1010101 110111100 10111000010 010100110 0 1110010 1 101010 0010100001 101110100 1 11010010 01101111 1101111 111 1001101001 010010 110101 0100 0100101010011 0111111100 111110010111 00111 101 11110111001000 111 11011010100 0111 10111001010111 01111 011101110100 110 11011111 1011110101 111010111 01010110 1111001 110101101 1 1101001100 111001111 111 010110001 111100111 1 11010 11111110 01111101011 1111011010 101 110010001111011 1000111101 01110010 001001010 010 1 1 111010011 01110 10101 1 01101011 0 111110 11101010 111101 11 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fame connects the lines.
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