This is an analysis of the poem Living With Pain that begins with:
Tell me of pain, what you know of it.
Is it to be feared, or guarded against...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaacdXefcebdegagdhbXXXccacfXhXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100 0000111001 101001 1110110010 1110100010 0000100101 1101000100 11111111 1111110 111001 100101010 01110 11111 011101 1110010 1010101 011111101 101001 1100101 0101010101 111001101 1010111 11101 010111001001 1000110101 10010010 110101111 11100010 101101 111010 11001011 110010010 10010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1052
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, she, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase arrows connects the lines.
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- summary of Living With Pain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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