This is an analysis of the poem I Cannot Be Known that begins with:
I cannot be known
Better than you know me ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXXc XXX cX b aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001 101111 110111 1010 111111 0101110101 1101110 110010101 010100001 01110101 110101 11101110100 11001 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Cannot Be Known;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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