This is an analysis of the poem If You Let Me Drive that begins with:
What do I do,
When all I have is You? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabac AXdb Aebce XfcgXfgdff eeXdXeXgdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 111101 1110111 01010101 11101 1111 1111 1101011 01110101 1111 1101110101 111100110100 11010 1011101 11110 00111 1110111 00111 10110101 110101 01111 11011101 01101 1111 1100110011010 11 10 0101010101 11 001101010 1 1111 111111101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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, to are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of If You Let Me Drive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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