This is an analysis of the poem You Have Not Knocked that begins with:
You've never not...
Come to knock....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCX ABBCX dAdAeAXA EADAEAXa ABBCX ABBCX eAXAfAeA EADAEAXa ABBCX ABBCXXffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,8,5,5,8,8,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 101 101 111 0111111 1101 101 101 111 0111111 111001010 1111 11110111 1111 111110110 1111 11111011 1111 111111010 11111 11010001 11111 110111010 11111 011111000 111101 1101 101 101 111 0111111 1101 101 101 111 0111111 010101110 1111 111111011 1111 111101010 1111 111100100 11111 111111010 11111 11010001 11111 110111010 11111 011111000 0101011 1101 101 101 111 0111111 1101 101 101 111 0111111 1 0111101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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:
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 words come, you are repeated.
The author used the same word you've 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 knock is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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