This is an analysis of the poem As Long As I Know 'Where' You Are that begins with:
If someone is caught mysteriously snooping.
And in your backyard, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbeadfg XX hic ibijigX klel kclgX ak iiXX bd kjeejhmmgX d iiX k ikkXa cafibeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,3,7,4,5,2,4,2,10,1,3,1,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011100010 10111 101011000100 111001000110 1 0110011111 111010010 111001 1111010 0101110111 10 1111 11 0100 1110100110100 101110100 101011 001101 10110 010010011 01 1111 1111 11001 011001 11111 11 111100 1111101 01 1111 01101101 1110 111 11 1011 1111 010011010 01001001 1110110101 110 10101001 0011 1010 1101 111111 0010001100 01 1111 10111 110100110 1111001111 1011110110101 1111 111001110 111 0100111111 11111 10110101001 110 0101 11 1101100011 1111 00010111 1111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
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