This is an analysis of the poem They Weren'T Comprehending Then that begins with:
Never have I stood in someone's face,
To place what I thought......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXb cdcbce XXeX XcdXXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111 01111 1001010 110111011 101010101011 11111001111 110101 1100 00111101 01100100101 1111111010 01000 11110011000 11010011 1101011111 110 11011111011 1111111010 1110011 01 11010101 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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