This is an analysis of the poem You Stay All Up In My Stuff that begins with:

Why do you stay all up in my stuff...
Feeding? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcdXdd ceXeAbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 111111011 10 10010011 0111 111011 111101010 01111 11110 011101 1110101011 011111 111111011 10 0110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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