This is an analysis of the poem I Don'T Understand You At All that begins with:
I don't understand you at all.
What has the tightening of my belt, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFGBHDBEI ABCDEFGBHDBEIXAcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 110100011 101001001100 10111 11101 110101010 0100100 100101010 1110100 01101101 111011101 10101010 1101010 11101111 110100011 101001001100 10111 11101 110101010 0100100 100101010 1110100 01101101 111011101 10101010 1101010 11101111 101000100100 101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word delicious at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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