This is an analysis of the poem You Do Know That The Lights Are Out? that begins with:
You are playing alone.
And in left field....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB C adbbdX be AB C dbX Cfab fae aXaagXg dcbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,6,2,2,1,3,4,3,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1011 11110111 11101011001 001010110 1111001111 11 110 11100 00101 10101110 111001 1011 11110111 111100011011 1110010 110111110 11110111 1 111 101 0111 0101 1010 011100111101 11100010 10010 1010110 0010011100 1 0001 11010110 1010110 1 11111 100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of You Do Know That The Lights Are Out?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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