This is an analysis of the poem Do You Care? that begins with:
Do you care?
Are you in doubt? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbX AXXb cXb XXbcacaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1101 1110111 111 111 011011 1101101 1111110010 1111011 11101001111 1101 111011101010 1011101 01110 100100111 110 0101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same words do, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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