This is an analysis of the poem You Have No Idea How Grateful I Am To You that begins with:

Remember when you told me,
To go fly a kite? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXcd XdXXcdba bXX XXbbaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,3,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101111 01101 010100001 111010 11010 10111101 111110110 1010100111 10101110 1010100101 0010100101010 1111 1101010101 11111 111101101 110 1110101101101 1 110101 1100 101101100 11 01000 110101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of You Have No Idea How Grateful I Am To You;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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