This is an analysis of the poem Why Is It You Have Them Around that begins with:
Do you wonder?
Do you ever wonder where these conflicts, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCcX ABCDCXc AXcAEE ABCDCA BCDC AEEBCABCDCAXDbDBDbDBDbD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,6,6,4,23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1110101110 011 11001100 000111 1110 1110101110 011 1111010 10100010 111111 0111101 1110 1110111 010011 1110 11110 011101 1110 1110101110 011 1111010 10100010 1110 1110101110 011 1111010 10100010 1110 11110 011101 1110101110 011 1110 1110101110 011 1111010 10100010 1110 10011001 10 10011001 11010 10011001 10 10011001 11010 10011001 10 10011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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