This is an analysis of the poem What Can I Do? that begins with:
What can I do?
Besides stand on the sidelines, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbbcb Aded fXggeeb AghhXfaia Xeeb hXXAica
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,9,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111 0111011 0101 11110 000100101 11001110 1111 001010001 01010101010 111111101 111010111100 00101111000 111011011 01011010100101 11101111001 0100100101111 010010011110100 1111 1111 0101101101 0111010100 1110111101 011110101010 111111 01111010 1011111101 101 0001100010101 101110 11011001 1101010001 110101111011 1111 01101110 01011101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, my, of, i 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 way is repeated).
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