This is an analysis of the poem What Cannot Be Said that begins with:
There's one who took my heart away.
But does she own it? I can't say....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb cc Xa XX dd aa eX ee ff agXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110111 10101111 01010111 11010101 11110101 110100101 11110111 11111100 01011101 01010101 11101010 11010111 11010001 10010111 00011101 01010101 11110100 11010011 01011111 111011010 110101010 11 1000010010100101101011101011100001010010 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same words she, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word say at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What Cannot Be Said;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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