This is an analysis of the poem Only God Knows How That Goes that begins with:
You need not know,
What it is I am thinking....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbA AbA AcXaddd Xcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1001110 1111 1111 111010 1111 1111 011110 1010011 1111 001011 111 110101111 110101010 1011111 1011101 11111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, need, not, know, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, or, only are repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 know is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Only God Knows How That Goes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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