This is an analysis of the poem What Did You Expect? that begins with:
You left when you announced you were leaving me.
What did you expect? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC deb fbab ebeg XbbXdfb fbe ABCgbeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,7,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110101 10101 10011010001 11111 110101010 1101101 11101 11111 101011101 10101 110011 101101 1111 1010110110 01010100 0011010101 100010101 00111011 11010 11111 10111 1101010101 1101010011 11101011101 11110110101 10101 10011010001 11111 1100101 11111010 010111111 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Did You Expect?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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