This is an analysis of the poem Never Will You Ever Understand It that begins with:

Never will you understand it.
Why things in my heart wont leave....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXAA AXAA bXXXbabXAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011010 1101111 10101010 1001101010 10011010 110110100 10101010 1001101010 111111010101 1010101 1111110 110101 0100101 11001 1101 1 10101010 1001101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; never, you, understand, it, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, my 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Never Will You Ever Understand It;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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