This is an analysis of the poem Your Body Is My Map that begins with:

Raise me more love… raise me
my prettiest fits of madness...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXacdeabXXfXfXcXghiaaegaajdXaaaadjggXaihabgabjig
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11001010 11010011 1101 1110110 0111 10111 011111101 110011 011110011 11010100010 11101010010 11011111 001010 110100000 1010010010 0010100001 1100101 1011100 11001110010 110111010 11010111 1110001101 1110010011 1111011 111010 1011 101 10010010 101010110110 10101 11110110101 10101011 0010001111 001011111 110101 101111 11010100110 11010010100 111111001 00100111011 11010100100 01000110010 11101 1011001001011001 1100010011 101110101 110010110 111111110 1100110100 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1668
  • Average number of words per stanza: 333
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; me, of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, i, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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