This is an analysis of the poem Having Not A Thought To Express that begins with:
Had someone ever asked you a question?
And you answered with an honest response? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXa Xdc XXcdbedfg bXfggcXafeX dhhdecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,9,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010 1110011001 0100001 1011101010 1101011010 11101011 111101010 1111 11101011 11110 1001101011 101111 111001 01010 0101101 10 101110 001101 11110101001 1111010 011001101 10011 111 1011 00111 111001 00111010 01010011 01111111 1 11111001 011111 1 111101 0111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 think is repeated).
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