This is an analysis of the poem What About Me? that begins with:
Have I not been able to give,
In the way that I should? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB bDXeD bXebdXbf DgBFgBDgBFgBD DABCBXDgBFgBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,8,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 001111 11111100 00101101101 1 1011 111111 10101101 1011 11011110101 101001010 01101101 1 10011010001 1110111 101010100101 001011010 1011 1 1111001 01111010 1 111000111 1011 1 1111001 01111010 1 111000111 1011 1011 11101001 001111 11111100 00101101101 1011 1 1111001 01111010 1 111000111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i, about are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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