This is an analysis of the poem If You Knew Me that begins with:
If you knew me,
You'd be here to share with me life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXababccc cCCDeCFeCCBGB cCGBcCCDcCCBcCF cCXCccCcAcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,15,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 10101011 10111 11011101 10111 11011011 1011 11011 11011111 1 0111111 111011 1110111 1 0111111 1111111001001 1 0111111 0101111 110001 1101010 111010 1 0111111 1101010 111010 1 0111111 111011 1110111 1 0111111 0101111 110001 1 0111111 1111111001001 1 0111111 10 0111111 1 1 0111111 11 0111 1 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; me, you, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word oh 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 oh is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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- summary of If You Knew Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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