This is an analysis of the poem I Say I Say I Say that begins with:
Anyone here had a go at themselves
for a laugh? Anyone opened their wrists...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXXdXacbaXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101101 1011001011 0010011001 1011011101 0011011111 1111010001 01001101110 10011010100 1010101110 101011111 0101110101 01010101110 10100011110 0101011111 1110111001 10101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 709
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, long are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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