This is an analysis of the poem What Was Done that begins with:
What you did...
Hurt me and you knew it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaCDaABBE XeEE XaEE AXccce FcG FcG ABaCDaABBE FFccGXFFCCG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,4,6,3,3,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 111110 1 111 11001 1 110 111110 101011 101 0101001 1111001 011101 1010011 101010 11110 011101 1010011 110 10101101 1111 10101101 0010101100 1 11 10 11111111010 11 110 11111111010 110 111110 1 111 11001 1 110 111110 101011 101 11 11 10 10 11111111010 10 11 11 110 110 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, listen, and are repeated.
The author used the same word come 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 here, listen are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words too, missing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase listen connects the lines.
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- summary of What Was Done;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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