This is an analysis of the poem Here Is What... that begins with:
Here is what is happening to me:
my old friend doesn't come to visit, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdadXefAbghiXgiiXaXbhfcffacXeihbd Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010001 111101010 1010100 110011111 11 1011110111 1110111 11100111 11011000 101010001 1011111010 11011110 1110010 111 11111 111011101 11 011110 0101000101 11010100001 1010010001 1101001 1110110 111010 1010 01010010 0101010 1010010001 1110 1 11 0010 01010001010 10010 011110 1 01011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, unnecessary are repeated.
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- summary of Here Is What...;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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