This is an analysis of the poem Never Have I Questioned This that begins with:
Never have I questioned,
Your uniqueness or abilities to doubt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDBEFF Agbchh aXXbGX bbbeb eaiicbi bbbbgb ABCDBEFFXGcGgGb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,5,7,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 10101010001 111010101 110010 0110011 10010101 1001 0100110110101 101110 110101 11011111 01001010110110 11101011110101 11001111101 101110101 1101001101011 10111010 11010101001 1011100 111100 11111 101011 11011110001 10100111 11001001001 11110111001 100101010 1010001 1010001 110111110 0010001 0111011 1111110111 111110001 10100101011 0010101010001001 11001010 11 101110 10101010001 111010101 110010 0110011 10010101 1001 0100110110101 101110100 11110111011 1011100 1111100111 101110100 101100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, like are repeated.
The author used the same word never at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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