This is an analysis of the poem When You Rush To Judgement that begins with:

You have no idea,
What you've done....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAb ABAB CDEDEDEDCDXD ABAb ABAB DAabDabDXbDD ABAbXCDEDEDED
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,12,4,4,12,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 111 111010 1 111010 111 111010 101 111 111010 1010111100 111010 1010111100 111010 1010111100 111010 111 111010 01110 111010 111010 111 111010 1 111010 111 111010 101 111010 111010 1010 1 111010 1111010 111 111010 111 01111 111010 111010 111010 111 111010 1 111 111010 1010111100 111010 1010111100 111010 1010111100 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; oh, your, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.

    The author used the same word you 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 idea, judgement are repeated).

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  • summary of When You Rush To Judgement;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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