This is an analysis of The One You Wanted To Be Is The One You Are by Jean Valentine.
She saying, You don't have to do anything
you don't even have to be, you Only who are,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXXc dd adc XXa
- Stanza lengths: 6,2,3,3,
- Metre: 11011101101 111010011011 1111011 0111110100 01110111 0110011 0111000 0011111 1110 111 1111 111011110 1011011 1010110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you, one, without
Anaphora
you, without
