This is an analysis of the poem Lookin’ For Myself that begins with:
You may be lookin' for me but I ain't lookin' for you
I'm still lookin' for myself and I ain't got time to look for nobody else...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc XccXc dbdXacdccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111111011 0110111111110111111 1111111111 101110110110101 110101110111 111101010 11111111110111 110111111101 1101110110110101 11011101010111 1110101111111 11111101100101 11111111111 1111110111100111100 1110101011 111110101101 10110110111111 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for, you, lookin', and, when, know, maybe, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word then at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Lookin’ For Myself;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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