This is an analysis of the poem What Is It That You Understand And How? that begins with:
The only time you will come to know,
The agony of my pain......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCDD b ABBCDD adXX Xeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 0100011 01111001 11011101 01010 110001001010 11101 010110101 0100011 01111001 11011101 01010 110001001010 10100110 1 11101000 0110110111 11111010111 1101 10011101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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:
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; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines understand is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Is It That You Understand And How?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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