This is an analysis of the poem I Want To Know that begins with:
There is too much I can not ignore.
Too much beyond my open door, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB Xcdede AABbX AABEXEc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111101 11011101 101011011 1111 10010101 101010 01101 110100100 11101 101111101 11011101 101011011 111011101 011101001011101 101111101 11011101 101011011 1101 10011110 1101 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, too, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Want To Know;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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