This is an analysis of the poem I Know How You Feel that begins with:
I find it quite amusing,
That those who do not know others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXb X XcaXXd ecee df fbdb fdXXfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,6,4,2,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 11111110 1110010101 111 0010000111 11110001111 10 111010110110 111100100011 101111010 10101010111011 01110110111 1011111011 10110010 011110010101 11101010101101 10111011001 010000101100 111111010100100 1110100010 1110110100100 0101 101111110101 011111011111 111101010111 101101011101 110101101101 10101011101001 111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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, to, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words i, people 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 interest is repeated).
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- summary of I Know How You Feel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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