This is an analysis of the poem We Don'T Know Who They Are that begins with:
We don't know who they are.
'Why? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXabX c XcX dd bdXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,3,2,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1 110010010 11010001 1110001001 0101001100 1 1 111111 010111010011 110 111011110010 100101110 1 0111010 101010101010 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
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