This is an analysis of the poem Some Have Steeples. Some Don'T that begins with:
What do I think of church?
'Yes! '...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X aa X bXcbc bX ac XX ddaX dXXeff feXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,5,2,2,2,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11 1 1011 11 1 1110 11 1110 11 1101000100 11101000010 1100011 1111101 1 1110111 1 11 110011 0011010 1 101 11101001011 1010 1110111 1001011010 11011100010 0111111101 110 1111101 1100010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; church, some, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines church is repeated).
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