This is an analysis of the poem Where Are You Going With This...'It'? that begins with:
I sat to listen.
While jokes were made....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcab XdecX bfg hbXX bXe ghhXbX dXbX XXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,4,3,6,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1101 1110100011 011111011001 010101 111011 01000111101 01001 11111011 010 11001001001 110110 111111001 111011 01011011001 111101 11101010 110011111 1111101 110100100111 11110010001 100001111 0111 101000100 0010001001 01001010100 111110111 1111 10010101000 01110001 11110010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'it' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word 'it' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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