This is an analysis of the poem The Untrustworthy Speaker that begins with:
Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
I don't see anything objectively....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bac cbc dcbe ffebX eeeX dbbecXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,4,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111010 1111010100 11111101100100 1111000 11010010 010110111101 110100110010011 001110 110111 101011101101 111101 10101011011 011100100110100 10111110 1010010 101110101 0010001 10101101010 011011110 101010110010 1111 01101110110 001010101 111010111 001010 110010 11010010 0101001 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we're are repeated.
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