This is an analysis of the poem What Do You Think It Might Be? that begins with:
Doctor?
I've tried all of the remedies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdeffX ffX XaabXf fgbffX ff XgX ffX edX e X gXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,6,6,2,3,3,3,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11100100 1110111 1110011 1101100 111011110 00101 11110111 100111101010 11101 11110010 110 11101 111010 10 1101011101 00101 1110110 10001010 0011001111 10101110 100 010100100001 00101010 010101110110 1001001110 1 111010100101 01000010 1 1110 110101011 1010010010 1111110 1101111 1101110101101 1111001001010 1111010 11 101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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