This is an analysis of the poem Would You Know? that begins with:
Would you know the kind of maid
Sets my heart a flame-a?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabccdDdXAB dbdbeedDdXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 111010 1101111 111110 1110111 1010101 1010101 01011101 101111111 1110110 1110101 111010 1010111 001110 1000101 101110 11011101 1011101 1010101 01011101 1011111111 1111110 1110101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kiss, me are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word a at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Would You Know?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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