This is an analysis of the poem What Else Ahead Of Us Is Next? that begins with:
I wasn't looking for love.
I wasn't looking for 'you'......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBcCCdc C ec afgf ffhgcc gfiXf Xgijbehj AXBcCccChcffj kgkcjd C AXBcCCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,2,4,6,5,8,13,6,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 1101011 111 1 1111 0011111 11111101011 11111101 11010101 111011010 1010010101 1111011 0100111001 11001010 10111111 01001011110 0010011 111001 100110 01001 01000101 10101010 11 0100110 101011 101000 10110 110011 010010010 0110010100 1 111110 110110111 1101100 1101011 1101011 111 1 1111 101010 1 1111 111101 1111110 0 00101 1011000 11 111011 01 1 1010 0111011 11010101 1101011 1101011 111 1 1111 0011111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 61
- 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:
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; for, that, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines met is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word next at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What Else Ahead Of Us Is Next?;
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