This is an analysis of the poem All That Which I Didn'T Need that begins with:
I've stopped,
Bemoaning the passing of time....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACACAdEXEaEFGCXGHi aBACACEFGCGHi JGJGGCDci JGCDciXJGJGgCDci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,13,9,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 01001001 11 010001001 11 100010101 11 101111101 01 11110101 01 11010101 01 1101011101 01 1111101 111 01 1011 1000 01111 01001001 11 010001001 11 100010101 01 1101011101 01 1111101 01 1011 1000 11101101010 0101011111 11101101010 0101011111 01 1111101 001001 1 1000 11101101010 01 1111101 001001 1 1000 11101101010 0101011111 11101101010 0101011111 101 1111101 001001 1 1000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of All That Which I Didn'T Need;
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- idea of the verse;
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