This is an analysis of the poem Your Mouth Is Wide Open that begins with:
I am not interested in you.
Nor will I ever be interested in you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXcd efX cXdXagh X aa X ghXabehijd bhdk fajbXXedhfddekeXacbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,7,1,2,1,10,4,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100001 101100100001 0010001001 0111011 11100111 1110111 10111110010 11110010101 11 101101 111101 101101 11101100010 1111101011 1111111 1 1100101 100111 01001 11011101 1001 1 1111111 100111101110 111110101 1101101 101111010101 1 1 1110 011111 1110101 111101 11111 01101001010 1 111 111110 1110110 101 110100101 1 11111011 11110010111 1 11 111011 10101 11010111010 1 1111 1001 101001 01 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, nothing are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Your Mouth Is Wide Open;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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