This is an analysis of the poem Whether Daggerless But...And, Or If Cloaked that begins with:
I wish I knew your true identity.
I wish I knew who you were......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXCDEFCF ABXCDEFCFX ggXdcXgX ABXCDEFCF hcCfXccccdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,8,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 1111110 100011 10011 01010 11101 10111 1110101 0011111010 1111110100 1111110 100011 10011 01010 11101 10111 1110101 0011111010 1 1110100011 01 110111000 100100010 1110001 11011111 11110110 01001001011 1111110100 1111110 100011 10011 01010 11101 10111 1110101 0011111010 11110111 10101 1110101 011111010 10100 10101 11 1111001 1010011101 101111110 01
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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