This is an analysis of the poem Why Aren'T You that begins with:
Why aren't you walking in the Sun,
To......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCdEF fBAbCdEF fBAbCdf fBAbgbHC AbCdEF fBAbCdEF fBAbgbHC BABI BABI BA BA BI BIXBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,7,8,6,8,8,4,4,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110001 0 11100 1 011100 01 1 101 10001 0 11100 1 011100 01 1 101 10001 0 11100 1 01110001 1 101 10001 0 111001 0 111001 00100110 110110001 0 11100 1 011100 01 1 101 10001 0 11100 1 011100 01 1 101 10001 0 11101 0 111001 00100110 1101 10001001 11101 100111 1101 10001001 11101 100111 11101 10001001 11101 10001001 11101 100111 11101 100111 11101 10001001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same words why, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words me, comes, sun at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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