This is an analysis of the poem We Have No Similar Interests that begins with:
You have spent your time attacking my beliefs.
But it is your beliefs that now attack you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CCdCeF AB XXgX gXXhhc Ab CCdCeF bgaXbbfXihii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,2,4,6,2,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 10010111011 1101101 111111 110 11 1 101010 11111010101 10010111011 11110000100 1001110 011110 010001 1101101 1110 110111 1110010 010100110 01 11111010101 10010110111 1101101 111111 110 11 1 101010 1111 1011101 111100100 110101 0101 1111111 11111011 1001010 10101101 1100101 1111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of We Have No Similar Interests;
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- idea of the verse;
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