This is an analysis of the poem You Know What I Mean that begins with:
I’VE noticed this happen, when everything is black,
When I’m down below zero and cannot get back,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddbbeecc eebbddcc eebbccXcacccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110010110101 111011011011 111101001001 101111011001 110011101111 001111111001 011001001011 10111111111 1111011001 001001011101 11101011011 1011111101 101111101011 111111001011 10111001111 11111111111 11011111101 101101101011 101111011001 111101001011 11001111001 101011101011 011001101001 101111011111 01111001111 101101001001 111011001001 101001101001 111011111010 111001001001 1010110010110 001101011001 111011111001 101001111111 101001101011 111101111111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, when, it, to, his, they, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mean is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mean at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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