This is an analysis of the poem If They Knew that begins with:
Ask anyone who is hungry.
And thirsting from it until it hurts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbccXcd AedXbcde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001010 110000101 10111101 0010100010100 1010101101 111001 001011 001001001 11001010 11000010 10011 011101 001001010 10011101 1011101 0111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word ask at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If They Knew;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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