This is an analysis of the poem You Picked The Right Day For Torture that begins with:
You picked the right day for torture.
It was too quiet and serene, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcX Abdebcfg AcdfbfffAedeXcbacg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 01110101 0011000 1101101 101 11011110 0101010100 11001001 1110111 010101010 111101011 11110 11010101 11011110 0111110111 0101010001 10111 100111110 11101101111 1011110101001 110 11011110 1110011 0110100101 1111 11101111 111 111011110 1011011011 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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