This is an analysis of the poem You'Ve Been Playing Me For So Long that begins with:
What do you mean,
I am not the same person, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXcXdXedfcXebfeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1110110 1111 11110 1011111 1001110010 1011101000100 010111 11101010 111000101011 101101101 10100010111011 10101111 11010010111111 10 11111 0111111100 01011111 000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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