This is an analysis of the poem Whatif that begins with:
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffeeXXffafffgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010111 110110111 11111101 100101 10110101 101111 10110011 101101 1011111 101111 10111111 1011111 100101011 101111 101111010 100111 10011111 101101 10110101 100101 10111101 101111 10110101 1011111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 820
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, whatif, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, whatif are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Whatif;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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