This is an analysis of the poem Shown What I Now Know that begins with:
Where did you think that I would go,
After I was shown what I now know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbccXdd AAbbeAAb afXdXfghXgbbehedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111111 101111111 100101010001 10101011 0100010000101 101001010001 1101111111 010111111 10111111 101111111 10010111001 10101010 10100101011101 10111111 101111111 1 11110111101 1101100111001 111101001111 001000110100101 11111010000 11011111001 101011111 0100101010110100 111011 110010001011101 110101 010100011111 01000101110100 10011001100 11101111001001 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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, you, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word back is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Shown What I Now Know;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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