This is an analysis of the poem Whoever You Are that begins with:
I could never live a life,
Devoted to your expectations....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cXdb Xcda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 010011010 11111 1110010 11 110 01000111 110 1001011 011011 11011111 001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you are 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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- summary of Whoever You Are;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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