This is an analysis of the poem We Know What We Do Sometimes Seems Foolish that begins with:
We have assignments,
Some with reason and rhyme......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcDD eeX FGh FGhX ABcDD hFhHhIcCEXhFhHhIcCE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,4,5,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 101011 1 1110 11111010 11010001111 00101 11101010 1111101110 111 1111101 1111101110 111 1010011 11110101 11010 101011 1 1110 11111010 1 1111101110 1 111010101011 1 11111110 1 11111 011011 1 1111101110 1 111010101011 1 11111110 1 11111 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to, we, know are repeated.
The author used the same words we, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ease at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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