This is an analysis of the poem I Don'T Know If History Repeats Itself that begins with:
I don't Know if history repeats itself
But I do know that you don't....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdef ddXXXcfeab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11101000101 1111111 10101101010 110011110 101111 1101010 110101010 11010101001 11011 1101011101001 010101010 111001010 1111 1100100101 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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