This is an analysis of the poem You Can Stir Up Much Havoc that begins with:
There are things I don't know.
Will you hold me to demands......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCA acca DEE FEEE ABCAaa DEE FEEEGFEEEG DEEeEhXFEEh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,6,3,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0111001 111101 11111 111111 111110101 10100101 01111 11010111 11110 11 1111110 1010 01 10110100 111111 0111001 111101 11111 1111 111111 11010111 11110 11 1111110 1010 01 10110100 01 1111110 1010 01 10110100 01 11010111 11110 11 1000 111101 111 1111110 1010 111101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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 author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words know, leave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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