This is an analysis of the poem Who Knows What Is Going On that begins with:
Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?
How many times the sunrise was...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xb ca b c XXcXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,1,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101010110 11010111 101010 1101010110111 1010010101010 01110 1111 11100010011 101001 1111001 1110001001110 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same words how, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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