This is an analysis of the poem Affirming That... that begins with:
Attract good health,
To me and my home....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcdBXBdBdBeBfBaBgefX XehgahXXgg cXhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 01111 01101010 1101001 01111 011111 01111 0100101 01111 01101101 01111 0110110100 01111 01010101100 01111 01011101 01111 01001 11011111 011100 1100100 11001 1011101 0101101 00101101 11100101 1010 01011010111 1100011 0111111 0111101 10010 1110 0010110111 11110101 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Affirming That...;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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