This is an analysis of the poem You See In Them What They Don'T that begins with:
You have exhausted your wits.
That is what you say about it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdca befbc XfaXf EAEDgaX EAEDbegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 10111010 0011011 0100010 10101011 01 00100010 1 11011010 110111101 10111010010 011101011 10100111 001011010 1111101 011111 01011110101 0010 111010011 1010 10100 0100010111101 111010100011110 111011010111 0010 111010011 1010 10100 001001100111 1001 0010011001 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and, you, to, them are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of You See In Them What They Don'T;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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