This is an analysis of the poem Can You Care? Can You Dare To Be Aware? that begins with:
Care!
And dare, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAAbcbXaAAXa aAADEAaFCC aADEAAFCC AABBAABBAabadbdbdXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,9,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11 0001 01010101 11111010 01111 1 1 11 0001 01111001010 111010011101 1 11 0001 0101010111101 1111010000111 111 110001 10100110 00111 110101010001 1 111 0101010111101 1111010000111 111 1110001 10100110 00111 110101010001 111 1110001 0101011101001 1111110001111 111 1110001 0101011101001 1111110001111 111 111 11 11101 1 1111111 1 1101001 1 1111111 0 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; to, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word can is repeated.
The author used the same word care at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines care is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word come at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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