This is an analysis of the poem The Question that begins with:
Love, a question
has destroyed you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa aX bc ded fgabcd fhddXhiXg hgbXeXbg hbdjjhjidfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,3,6,9,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 1011 111101 0100100 11111 01101 1101 11001 01111111 11 1011 11101 0101011 01 1010111 00111 11111 00101001 01111 1110 11101 11011 1101011 110101 1110101 11011 111011 1111100 111111 0101 01101 1101011 111 111 1 11101001010 11110 0110101 11110 11 11010 111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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