This is an analysis of the poem Witness To This Doing that begins with:
Tell them what you want.
Express this as a wish....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbca ddcee eXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10111 010101 100100111 1101 1101001 11101 1010 11001 1111110111 1111100101 1001 01011100 0111 11 1010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 you is repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Witness To This Doing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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