This is an analysis of the poem How that begins with:
How can I work when you play the piano,
Feminine person above?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cXcX XdXd befef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110010 1001001 11110110010 10111 11110001010 1001001 10010010010 11110 11111010110 111101 1111010100 1011 111100110 10 1011101 1101110010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; of, how, can, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase how connects the lines.
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