This is an analysis of the poem Without You that begins with:
My Pillow gazes upon me at night
Empty as a gravestone;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcBd XXeefggXXdf abcBX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001111 101011 1101010110 0001 101101011 110100101 010110 1101111 01001 1101111 011111101011 1100001 1101101111 010010110 10111 1111 1111010001 11001001 1101010110 0001 01011 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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- summary of Without You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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