This is an analysis of the poem I Know For Me There's No Benefit that begins with:
Why did you abandon my love,
And then announce it missing? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXbcd eeFCEcfF Xede ABFCEeFf GFGGFGGFGGFGGF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,8,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 1101010 111111010 11001011110 1110111011 111101010110 11101110111 11111001110 1101011110 110111000 10111011 1011101 00100101 101111100 1110111101 11 0001 1101 10101011 1101010 1101011110 110111000 10111011 01001101 101111100 1001001101 11110 1101100111 11110 11110 1111111100 11110 11110 1101100111 11110 11110 1111111100 11110 11110 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, and, i, not, why, should, bother are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
The author used the same words i, why 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 bother is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word meant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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