This is an analysis of the poem Where Do We Go that begins with:
Where do we go.
After running away from facing the facts....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcdAc AeAbbacXede XXabXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 10100101001 1111 1010111 11001 111001 1111 00101011 1111 0101010101010 1111 00111 000111001 11111 01010001 10101101101 1 111100101011 011001010 111 11110011 1111 011110 011001010 110001000101 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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