This is an analysis of the poem If You Only Knew that begins with:
Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth,
Far from me but here all the same without your knowing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaAXbacdAXefgbcAXhAXibjdbgAhdcdjgcageihgfaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101011101000101 1011110101110 1011101100110101100 10111001101011101 01101 1011101010101010111101 10101101001111110100 1111111 101011100011100010 101011110 01101 101101010100010101000101 11101100101 10111001101110101110 10011 1011010101110101010 101111110110 01101 1011110010110100010010 10111011100101111 01101 101110001 10111101101111 10101101010111110010 100111011010 10101011000101010 11010110111001010010 10101101101111101 01101 101011101 011001101101001001010110 11100001101001000101 101011010110000111100 10 1111101001010011001 1 10101101 01101111111111111101 11111110110011 010101 110110110 0110110111001 111000101011111100 111011110 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2373
- Average number of words per stanza: 466
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; far, me, and, from, you, of, how, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word far is repeated.
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- summary of If You Only Knew;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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