This is an analysis of the poem No! Keep It that begins with:
Why are you smiling so broadly?
It is clear you have been prevented, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XdcX Xdee dX XEc XeadX edbXXX XdXEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,2,3,5,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 001110010 00101101010 10 111011 11101010 11100100011 11 101111 10111100011 111 11101 1111 0101010010 11 1101010 1 1 101101110 0110001 1101010101001 1 10 1001111 110101 1111010110 1010101 1 101101 10111011001110 11 0110100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
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