This is an analysis of the poem Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII) that begins with:

Come with me, I said, and no one knew
where, or how my pain throbbed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXbX cbdXcda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 101111111 1111110 10101100011 100111110 11001101101010 11110111011 1011100010 1111101011111 1011111101 10101101111 010101000111 0101001001 011110101001 0110100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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