This is an analysis of the poem However You May Lay Your 'Loo-Yahs' that begins with:
So given we are,
With beliefs our thoughts within us......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCXXdebX ABCeefg bgg Xgbbe ABchgee icbegg cXcfX fXX iaXehebXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,3,5,7,6,5,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 00111011 1101110 111000100 000111001 101011 01101010 1001010000100 11100110110 11011 0011101 1101110 1100111101001 111 110010100111 1111 11011001 101010001 00010001011011 1111011101 1100001110101 1101 001001 1101 11011 0011101 1011110 11101001 1110011 101110101 0100 100010 11010101 111001100 11101110001 110101011001 010011100010 101010111 0010001 110001000101101 101010111 0111010 01 011101 10 010 1 110111111 00100101 11111 11101110 1011001 001101001010 001011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; with is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of However You May Lay Your 'Loo-Yahs';
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- idea of the verse;
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