This is an analysis of the poem You Just Want Me To Preach that begins with:
Our 'children' are killing each other.
Society and the 'church' has allowed this....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXcc ddaed eXc bbXbb bd XXXa bcdbfb fdded d GFeefbXhh dXGFfeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,3,5,2,4,6,5,1,9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110 01001011010 110010000100 11001001101 1101010 11010001 10010001 11010101 001001 1010101010 01010101 101001 11101111 11 110101 011110 11101011 1111010 1110 11010000100 110001110 1110000001 101010100 01011101101 011 10101010 1100110111 1011 11101010 010001 111001 01010110101 01010001 10101000001 10101000010010 0010010 1010101 1 111101 111001010 1110101010100 1110001 010110010 001111 10110010 0100001000101 10001001001 1 111101 111001010 01001111011 101001 010101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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