This is an analysis of the poem How Do You that begins with:
How do you,
Asks the chief of police,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXXXXbabcXc adX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 101001 01010 10101 110110 11110 1110 1111 1101 11110 11001 11 1111 111 110 11010 11001 111001 110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of How Do You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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