This is an analysis of the poem Needing Details And Specifics that begins with:
Please don't say you understand,
Because you couldn't....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB CDB EFggXbhiX XXjjkf EFbhgfa ABB CDB jikfkiji kikXd ABB CDBajahXABBg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,9,6,7,3,3,8,5,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 01110 11111 1111111 11001 1111111 110100111 01110100 1010101 011011111 1011 0101110001 111010100 11110101 111 11101111001 11110110 11001 11011101 1110110110 101110001000 110100111 01110100 110011010011 111011 011 11010111 1111101 1111101 01110 11111 1111111 11001 1111111 111110011111 1010111111 1111011101 1110100101001110 11110100 111011110101 1011 111001001110101 1 1110101 11000110000100 010111010010100 11101011001011 1111101 01110 11111 1111111 11001 1111111 100101 11101011011 11110101 01110011010 1111101 01110 11111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, i, my, to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word please 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 understand is repeated).
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