This is an analysis of the poem Unknowing What It Means that begins with:
Knowing what it means,
To recognize a blessing......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXacdaec FX ggehce X hhiaXiXa FFdbX febXcacc aX jXceXafffee XfFX ddfa jXX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,6,1,8,5,8,2,11,4,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 0101010 011101 01001 110100 101010 00001101 10101011 100111 00110101011 1111 110101 1111110 0111 101111 01010001 10101 111000100 1111011 1110101 11111001 1010111111 1111110 0101011101 010101000101 0010110010001 0101111 1111 110101 0101111 11101 111001 1100101 11 10110101 110000111 011001 01010010010 01101100 100101001011 11111110 110001110 1000 01101 1101101 11101011101 1111 111111010 1 11001 10101101 110111101 101101110101 11100101011 1111 110101 11100100 1 0001100101 11101 11010010 11100110100 11011 110111111 1 00111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; what, you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Unknowing What It Means;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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