This is an analysis of the poem A Mutual Sharing Has Become Effective that begins with:

What can be said to someone that hurts?
Someone accustomed, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD bXXedd aabccXe ABCDXffea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101111 11010 0100010111 0100111 1101 01110 1010010010 101 01000111 0110 101100 1000111011 011110 101001001 0100 0010001 1111 110101111 11010 0100010111 0100111 10 11111111 010101 010010101010 0011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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  • summary of A Mutual Sharing Has Become Effective;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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