This is an analysis of the poem Somehow I Knew They Knew that begins with:
My left hand has five fingers.
So does my right hand....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXCabcbdX XX XaXdbddcCabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11111 1110011 1101111111 11 111 00111010 00111 100 1 111 0110010 1111 111111 1101011101 011110 110111 111101 101101 0100111 111111 10110 111 101101101 11 11110110 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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