This is an analysis of the poem A Having Of Common Sense Is Priceless that begins with:
I have come to realize,
That those I see today with their eyes closed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCd dcbbaedeXe XfeX eegXhbdhdeX dABCX geeX edX fddXfbaXb XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,4,11,5,4,3,9,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1111010111 11001011 1111010010101 11110 1010010111001 11101011001 0110001101 1110110 11001100 01110101101001 011000111110000 111001010100 001010110101100 10100 11011 111011011101 10101111111 101111001 0111 1011 1111011000 11001101000100 1100101101111 1010111011011 111101011110100 111010011001100 101101101011 11111 1011011 1110101 1111010111 11001011 11110100101000 111010111 1111011101 011011100001 1101001001 10100101010 100100110 11111 1101 0101111101 10010 111101 1110011100011 110100111 001010010 0101110 01111101 11101001 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, we are repeated.
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- summary of A Having Of Common Sense Is Priceless;
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