This is an analysis of the poem You Feel A Sense Of Worthlessness that begins with:
If those 'things' did not exist,
Would you still be who you are? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDXDECXXX fdccdaa gaXXggggXegABXd Xff ABCDXDEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,15,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 1110111 1110101010 1010 11010100 111101010 1011101001 110100101011 10110111000 001010 1101001001 11 111011010 1111011 1010 1111010 11011010 10101 111101001 10101101110 110 11011011101111 1111 1 1 1111 11111 11111 1101 0110101 1110111 1110110 010 111101 111 11101 0110101 1110111 1110101010 1010 11010100 111101010 1011101001 110100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words things, would are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines things, know are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases you, things connect the lines.
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