This is an analysis of the poem Voltaire Johnson that begins with:
Why did you bruise me with your rough places
If you did not want me to tell you about them?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXadcXdXXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101110 010111011010 1101011000 0101110010 1110010100 01011101011 1100110 111011010011 01011101011100 11101101 110100111 1101011110 111101001010 1010101 11011111 111101111 01010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 674
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; you, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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