This is an analysis of the poem How Can You Expect Me To Know? that begins with:
How can you expect me,
To respect who you are, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAADE ABCAADE fXgEeEedgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 001111 0111001 1001101 11010011 01110 001001 111011 001111 0111001 1001101 11010011 01110 001001 11101101010 11110101 11000101 11101101 101111111 11101101 11 1101101 1 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, to, me are repeated.
The author used the same word how 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 me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word show at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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