This is an analysis of the poem When Is When? that begins with:
If my heart is the heart,
You are still loving......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXbXbababbcaXdddeXdXedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 11110 111111 10011111 11111 0101010 1001010111 11101001 11010111 11111001 11011110101 0011 111 10111011 1101111101001 100101010111 1110111101 01 0111 101 1 001011010 01 0111011 1011 111011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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; you, we, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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- summary of When Is When?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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