This is an analysis of the poem Just A Knucklehead that begins with:
What do 'I' want?
Love and devotion from someone true and loyal....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXcdeff XX gg hihXejXj dXbkak iX gc XX iiii XaciX E clgX gicci dglX Egf gX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,2,8,6,2,2,2,4,5,1,4,5,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 110100111110 1110100 11011101 010101010100 1111000101 11110 10110 1111010001 111000101111 1 10111 1 1 1111011 111001 11110101 1111110000 10001 010100010001 101010101000 111101 1010101010 11010000 101100111 11001001001 1111100101 011 1011 11111011101001 11 11011111 110100 10101110 11 1101 111111100101100 11111101110011 1111011101 11111010 01110010101 010110101111 1101001 11010101 111110111 10110110 01101 101011101 1 11111001 11010101 11001011 1101111011 1110 101101 010111110 1111101 11010101 1101111 111001 11 110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to, we, can are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 you is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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