This is an analysis of the poem Why Is It You that begins with:
I touch.
I feel....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCXdXXXeeXecdABCeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11 11 11010111 1111 011 1111010 101 111011 1001100 111100 1111011 101111011 11 11 11 11 11001 1110100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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