This is an analysis of the poem Someone Had To Try that begins with:
What are you doing?
And why are you doing this? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cacdX cEF XfbX cEF gX cEF dX hhdiagfgjkj gfdeX Xfkgd XdbcX X gigXXXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,4,3,2,3,2,11,5,5,5,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1111100 10010010 1010111 0100100 101011001 11011 111111011 1 1011 1001011 111010 110101 010111 011101 1 1011 1001011 11110101 11101101 1 1011 1001011 110101 010011111 1 1 11010 001011 1001010 1001111 010100111 0100111 101111 101110100 10101111 11 1011101 0111011 1110100111 11110101 1 11101010111 111111 110010011 0101001 1 1101 11011110001 0100011100 10101011 111110 1011 111101101 11101 11100111 101011111 1 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; you, to, what, i, someone, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, uh, someone are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines uh is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase uh connects the lines.
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