This is an analysis of the poem You Make Me Sick that begins with:
People like you,
ALWAYS think they know everything....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbcXXXXbc XaaX ad dadX a XacX X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,2,4,1,4,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11111101 111100 101100100 101110 1110111010100 111001111 110100110 111011101 11100110100 0010011 11111 1 11 110011 1101001110 011 11110 111011 110100101 011 111111001111 111110101 11101001110 11011101 111111 111111 1111 101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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 is repeated.
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