This is an analysis of the poem How Deep Do You Want It? that begins with:
How deep do you want it?
You want it cloaked or flaunted? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcacddbdbXabXAefeaAaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1101110 1110111 1010101 01011 0101010 1111100 101011010 0100100 100101 1010100 11111 1110 0111 111110 11101110 111010101 111010 10111 111110 01101110 111101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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:
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, it, want are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of How Deep Do You Want It?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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