This is an analysis of the poem Some Knock Rocks that begins with:
If a doing proves it does,
What it should prove to be done......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC DDCD EDfghheg DDCD ABCCEFFDFFgdhg DF F FXF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,14,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 1011001 1010100 1110011 0101010 00100010 101010101 00101010 11110101 11100101 001010111 100111 11110111 11101111 11110001 1010101 0101010 00100010 101010101 00101010 0010101 1011001 1010100 1110011 11110101 111 111 11100101 111 111 11110101 0011101 001110111 110101 11100101 111 111 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; it, some, rocks, knock, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The author used the same word some 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 rocks is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rocks at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Some Knock Rocks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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