This is an analysis of the poem Where Do You Go? that begins with:
Where do you go,
When the Moon is full and glows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbAccc ABcdA efag XdgXebgXbXb A hCCChCCCfA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,4,11,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1010111 101100111 1111 110010011 11001 11001 1111 1010111 10101 01100111111 1111 11001 1111 101011101 100 1110100 1111100010 111011100 001100 1001 111100010 1111000 0010100101 10101 111 110111 1111 11 1010101 11110101 01010101 1111 1010101 11110101 01010101 11100 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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:
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; to, i, little, bit are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bit is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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