This is an analysis of the poem What About Me that begins with:
How is it that everyone knows what I need?
How can they know, when I have no idea...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabaacddXdDaeXfbbXdgfhXdgdacfXegdahhD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011111 11111111010 1010101101 111111110 01111111 100111 0111110 110101 1101011 111111010 11111001 1011 111111101 11111111111 11111 1101110 1101110101 0110111101 10010010001010 010110101 110111100111 110111 11110 111011 1101101 0101101 10111011 1111111 1110110 111010 0010010 01011 1111101 0000101 1101101 1110110 111011100 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1195
- Average number of words per stanza: 257
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, me, i, know, what, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, they, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines need, me are repeated).
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- summary of What About Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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