This is an analysis of the poem Who Understands Me But Me that begins with:
They turn the water off, so I live without water,
they build walls higher, so I live without treetops,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdacebdbecEc feXcXfgXdaXcgXgXccXeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011110110 111101110111 1101011110111 11111110110101 111111111011 11111101011011 111111011101010 11111011011111 11111111110101 111111101 1111111011 11111111011 111110111011 1101101101110110 1101111100100 110111111111010 1101111001011 11010101010110 1110111110111111110 11101110010111 1110110 001001001101 1101011 11111011101011 101010101011 1010110 10101111010101 11011 111101100110011 1001101 100010010111101011 1111001101 111110111 11111111011 111101100 11110111011010 1101111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 926
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, so, i, live, without, take, and, me, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, who, i, when, and are repeated.
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