This is an analysis of the poem Who Would I Convince? that begins with:
What are you doing?
'I've awakened this morning, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aX bc dX cb XdbeX a bcfX g gX hXdbi bicdXeedgfcX cXgecbX ibhX XXEXEcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,5,1,4,1,2,5,12,7,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1010010 01011110 100 100011 10100100 10101110000 11100101 1010100 1 1111001010 0110 1 1110001001110 11011110 11001010 11111 111101 1101001001 101010 110 1010 010101 1100001011 1 10 1110111 11 01 1100101 11010110 1111010111 1 1 1011010 10011 100100010 1101010010 11110001 101 1000110001001010 1011 1 1100111011 111010100010 1111 10010 11101 111101100001 100101101 1 1 11 1 11 10 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words serious, how, oh are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people, oh are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases serious, oh connect the lines.
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