This is an analysis of the poem The New Higher that begins with:
You meant more than life to me. I lived through
you not knowing, not knowing I was living....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddccebc ecaafdeacffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111 11101101110 11111111101 101010111111 110010110010000 01011010101 10101011 11011101 101010111010 101110111100 01101010110111 1010011011010 1011010110101 01110111010111 101101001 1011110010 1111001 11111110 01111111 11111110001 1010011110110 11001110110 11010110110101 011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, window are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines window is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases now, where connect the lines.
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- summary of The New Higher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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