This is an analysis of the poem And...If They Knew? that begins with:
Pish with no posh.
And scoop up the puppy poop....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XX bcdXe X ffedf XX ghi JiX Xddbdkljm JmdndX jn mkfjj jgi XhX g acbX Xmnl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,1,5,2,3,3,9,6,2,5,3,3,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1110101 1 1010110101 10010101 1010010 110010100100 011001101000 010000110101100 10 1101 0110101011 10111110010100 00100010101 010010110111 1 0111 11110101100 111100011 1011010100101010 11 11111110101 11101111 100 1 111001011010 010110000010 0110 00101101 10010100011011 1101110010111001 1101110101010 11 1111 0111 11111000 101000100 11101 1 11101000 110 110011 11100011 111100101 111 11101010011 01110 01001011010 1 110101011 1101101000110 111111011 110011 110010 1 00100101 1 1 1 1010001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase years connects the lines.
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- summary of And...If They Knew?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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