This is an analysis of the poem Knowing This Taste We Can'T Give Up that begins with:
Whatever we do tonight.
Who's going to say what we do...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccc ADEFA eGEbb Eghhi EGEeXi ADEFAgjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 11001111 0111 11111 1101111 01 1101101 10111101 111101 0101101 111101 11101111 110111 01011 01011101 111010101 1101111 111111 111111 1111 10 1101111 110111 01011 1110111 10010101 110110110 1101101 10111101 111101 0101101 111101 10101011 010111011 10011111 11111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; we, to, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word should is repeated.
The author used the same word should 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 up is repeated).
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