This is an analysis of the poem You Figure It Out that begins with:
You figure it out.
Why I don't sleep in 'our' bed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABAB ACACAD AEbA feE AEbAa ACACAD feE AbAebAeAXABABABb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,3,5,6,3,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 1111011 111001 1011101 111001 111111110 11001 1011101 111001 1011101 111001 111111101 0100 0101110 1 11001 111010 1101101 111010100 0100 0101110 1 11001 10101 11001 1011101 111001 1011101 111001 111111101 01010 110101 111010100 0100 1 11001 010110 1 11001 0101100 111001 11001 1111011 111001 1011101 111001 111111110 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, figure, it, out, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, and are repeated.
The author used the same words you, i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).
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