This is an analysis of the poem What Do I Know that begins with:
What do I know
What can I know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC debf dgch Xeec dijj eXfj XgbX fcjh Xddh dgik Xefh kfXf AABCXgick
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111 1110 1101 1101 1010 1010 1101 101010 110011 001001 110111 1101 1010 1010 0011 101010 101010 101111 111011 111100 111010 001000 110001 1001 0010 1100 0110 1010 0010 1010 1111 11101 10110 00101 00111 01010 10011 001010 01111 10101 01010 11101 11001 110111 010101 101110 00100 1111 1111 1110 1101 0101 1110 0101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know, less are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word life at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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