This is an analysis of the poem Nobody Can... that begins with:
I know I don't exist here alone!
Nobody can......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ABACdEF ABACdEF BGBHBIjG BGBHBIjG ABACdEF Abab BGBHA AkbACdEFlXALBkALBkALB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,8,8,7,4,5,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 1111 1111 11111 110101 1 111011 01010111 1111 1111 11111 110101 1 111011 01010111 01101 11101 101101 110101 110101 11111 1 0110101 01101 11101 101101 110101 110101 11111 1 0110101 1111 1111 11111 110101 1 111011 01010111 1101101 11101 1101111 11011 01101 11101 101101 110101 1101101 1111 111 11111 11111 110101 1 111011 01010111 0111 1111 111 11 111 1111 111 11 111 1111 111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, nobody are repeated.
The author used the same words nobody, with 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 you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words heart, attacks at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nobody connects the lines.
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