This is an analysis of the poem What More Is It Should I Do? that begins with:
Speak and then you leave.
Don't bother to let me know, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCB abXd DBXd DBeXeXbBacXABBCBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1100111 1101111 101011 11 11111 101111 10100011100 010 100111 01 101011 110011 100111 01 011111 1111010 11111 01010111 1111111 11 01 11 11111 1100111 1101111 101011 11 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you 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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