This is an analysis of the poem Is Your Smile A Clue? that begins with:
I am not here because there is nothing else to do.
I am here because of you......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aABccX ddXeefcafafcdXfc baABXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010101 1110101 10001 101111100111 1111010101 11010 11110111 111010111 11110 111111 1111111101 1101101 11110011011 1101101111 011000010 01011011111 10100101 10110001101 011001 100101 0101111 0001011100 11111 011010101 1110101 10001 101111011010 01101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, i, you, not 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Is Your Smile A Clue?;
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