This is an analysis of the poem You'Ve Got Me Lifted that begins with:

You've got me filled with helium.
And I feel your lift....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABAC dcD ABACDcBCCXABACBCCDccccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 11111 11110100 111100 11110100 11111 11110100 111100 01111111101 1 011111110011 11110100 11111 11110100 111100 011111110011 1 0111110111011 011 110001 11110100 11111 11110100 111100 0111110111011 011 110001 011111110011 111101 1 11110 110 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word uplifted at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of You'Ve Got Me Lifted;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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