This is an analysis of the poem As It Is! It Is...As It Is that begins with:
This stirred inside me,
Long before I spoke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcb baXXbc bDDDXdXbDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 10111 11011 110101 01010001 0111100 1110 111 1110101010 0110 101 11101010101 1 100 00 100 01001111 010100001 1 100 00 100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- 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, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, is are repeated).
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- summary of As It Is! It Is...As It Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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