This is an analysis of the poem Knowing You Might Some Day Come that begins with:
Knowing you might some day come
and how unprepared I’ve always...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcadeXfffXaghaidjdaeeaghbjcijXgbghaigXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 11101111 0 11010 01010 11001 1101 111001110 11011 1011 1011 1010010 1011111 111 101010 10111110 011 011 10101 10111101 110011 0101 01 1011111 010 10111110 111011 101111 101101101010 0101 101111 001001 1011111 0111101 1 010 11 10111110 010001 10 1001010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 904
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; number, warmth, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word number is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines warmth is repeated).
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