This is an analysis of the poem You Want To Gain...What? that begins with:
You want to gain...
What? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcde Abfffdf AbgchfXbb cgchabca ccXgbg bc Abdidi a AbegibX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,9,8,6,2,6,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1 11011 0111011011 010010 10110 1101 1 0101010101 01010011101 11010111 1001110100 110100111 1101 1 010011 01110 1011011 1111 001101010 1101 11101000 11011100 101101 1011001001 010111101 11010001 101101 001 001 11010010 00101 0111111 011101 001101 0111 1101 11101 1101 1 010011100 11010 101001011 111010 10111011101 1101 1 0101 1111 1010 0111011001 1111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to, you, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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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