This is an analysis of the poem I Know You Not that begins with:
O Christ, the Vine with living Fruit,
The twelvefold-fruited Tree of Life,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaccd cecffgeg hicdihcd jkckcajaXfkhehkef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010010101 01001101 01010101 10110011 10110111 11110011 10111101 10111001 11010101 11010101 10010101 11011001 11011001 111100111 111101011 11111111 11111101 11011111 11010101 11111001 01001101 01011011 10111101 11110100 01110111 11010100 01110111 11111101 11111111 010101001 01111111 11001101 11111100 11010111 01110101 10111111 01011101 11110101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thee, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of I Know You Not;
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- idea of the verse;
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