This is an analysis of the poem Your Own Mind that begins with:
You say,
You've got your own mind....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcC aDccc cXCCXcCC cd CBCB AdececFEXADccFE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,8,2,4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11111 111111010 11111010 111 001001 0101110100 111011001 110101111 1111111001 111110111 11111010 11111010 111111101 111110111 11111010 11111010 111101101 010111011001 11111010 111 11111010 111 11 001001 1111101110 11000111010 1 1000111010 100011101 1111101 11 001001 11111100100 1 100011101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, can't, why, find, time, use, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, seldom, you are repeated.
The author used the same words why, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word use at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Your Own Mind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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