This is an analysis of the poem Your Mind Is In Conflict that begins with:
You say you want the weight you carry gone.
Yet you turn around to put that weight back on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBCX aaXad ddBCb cdcdd X eXcXedf XX fXcaXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,1,7,2,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 11101011111 0010001 11111001 001010010001 11110010101 1000100101 00101011111 11110110010 101010100011 110101100101 11110010101001 0010001 11111001 11011 11001011010010 11000111100010 11110101110111 1111000100 1110010001 11101011111000 1 1110111111 01011010111 110 10100010010001 0101101 11010001010001010 111010 101101101 110 11110111010 1111010 11010011111 1011101001 0001010 11101011111000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you 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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- summary of Your Mind Is In Conflict;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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