This is an analysis of the poem You Asked How (Formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her To Say) that begins with:
At the end there were straws
in her glove compartment, I'd split them open...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXb XbcdXXf cXfaaXXefgggXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 00101011010 01001010101101 11101001001 111111 010011111001 111111101101 111111101111 1111110111 11011111 010111000111 101 0111101011 1110 10010101101 01101110101011 0100110110 11101111 1011101 11011101 1011101 101100101111 0010010111 1011101010111 10010110100 11010110011 010101100 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of You Asked How (Formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her To Say);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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