This is an analysis of the poem So Much Of What You Do that begins with:
If you can hear or witness,
The ticking of a clock....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddde cfffff gfXb Xafa XheXie hXaXXjaXXhdXaXdidhdejg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,4,4,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110 010001 1011101 110101 100011 100101110 0111001 011111 01011 11001 00101101 1011 111111 100111010 101011110010 010111111 11110101 11011101011 0010000100 10101101 01010010001001 0110111101 1010110 001111010 00101001 0101010 10111 0111101010 1101011011 1111101 01010001011 101010111 11 01110 010111101 0101010001 111111 110010 111110 1001011011 010101 10110110 110111 0 10101 11 110111 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of So Much Of What You Do;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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