This is an analysis of the poem You Don'T Understand that begins with:
You made the choice to stay in one spot,
To complain what it is you have or have not....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXX X abXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011 00110011111 111011111101 111010011000 11100111001 101001111 111011 111 111001001111 100110011 101110101011 01011111011 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
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