This is an analysis of the poem What It Is You'Ve Done that begins with:
You have no idea what it is you've done.
Not a single thought of yours has come, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCXAA ADXdXXXXDD ABCXAADdXDDaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010011 101010111 010100 1010110 101111110 11101010011 11101010011 11011 1001101 11010101 11010010001 101011 11011101101 11111011 110111 110101101011 11101010011 101010111 010100 1010110 101111110 11101010011 11011 1110110111 110111 110101101011 1111111 1111101011 00111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines done is repeated).
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- summary of What It Is You'Ve Done;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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