This is an analysis of the poem What Would Be The Point that begins with:
What would be the point,
If a blade of grass...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbXabbac AcdXebe AaXfXbd aeXgbhibha Aaia abfgbgX Xbehba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,7,10,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 00101 11101 0010 10001001 10111 1001001 010101 110011 001 11001 01101 00101 0110010 001001 1010 010101 11001 101001 0011100 0101001001 1111 10110 0101 111001 11011 0110001010 011011001 01 10101010 001010101 00100001 101 1101 11001 010111 010110101 11 01 110010011 01111 1001010 101 0101010 10101100 11001110101 101111010010 111101111 10011010 11101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and are 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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