This is an analysis of the poem Your Quick Shift In Mood Smells that begins with:

Yeah. Yeah,
I'd like to be there where you are....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaXbcXdX AdAdAXXXcbcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11001111 11 11010011010 11101110101 1101111011 111011 1011010 1100 11 110010111 11 10111111011 11 110101010 11010 111011 101011101 111001011 01 1110101101 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; yeah, you are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Your Quick Shift In Mood Smells;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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