This is an analysis of the poem How Would I Know It that begins with:
You may be sweeter than honey.
But how would I know it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbBbXbC XBXBXXbCc dbdc AbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 111110 1111111 111110 1100111 101011 1 111111101 110111010 111110 101111 111110 1101001 011111 1 111111101 111111101011 11101 1111010 110101 111101110101 11010110 110110 01111111 101101110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; but, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word see at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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