This is an analysis of the poem You Have No Idea that begins with:
No recognition today to me you can give,
Will change the facts of my life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbba ccXa dXeedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100101111 0101011 110110010 10100 001001001010 101100101010010 1010001111101 1101001110 00100010111010 010110111 111101110101 111100100 01011101101 1010111010001 1110110100101 111010101110111 11010100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, to, you are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of You Have No Idea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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