This is an analysis of the poem What More Could I Have... that begins with:
What more could I have...
If I already have all of You? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXcXcXX cbXdeceaB ABXXbdd XB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 010101101 1110110 1011001 11 111101 11011010 01 111010011 101 1110010 11101 110011101 11001 0100111 11111 010101101 11111 010101101 00101110 0010011 011101001 1101101 111100 11111 010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i, have, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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