This is an analysis of the poem What It Is I Have Missed that begins with:
Between two and two-thirty AM,
And well before dawn......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeb dfdbgb hieehj jfX kfia X ej biX chXee KFXKhEX XX abfXX ld KFXKhEXXllkbgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,3,4,1,2,3,5,7,2,5,2,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11011 1101001 1100001 110010 11010011 10010101111 010010111111 111111101 11101111010 1110110 110101010 111011100111 1100101101 00101101011010 10110111 111110010001 111111100110 110101010 1101001 011010101 1 11010111 111011011 0111111 11 1 10 11100110010 00101 0111101 110101001 11 1111010100 111111111 0100 11 11100110101 1111100 1011101110001 1 11101 111100 1 111100 11110 11101 100110 011111101 11111101 11001 11111 11 11100110101 1111100 1011101110001 1 11101 111100 11001 11 11 01 11110110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; they, as, to, that, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of What It Is I Have Missed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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