This is an analysis of the poem Awakening that begins with:
A rushing done to be accountable today...
Leaves 'what' to be influenced? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXaXbcXabddXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010100010001 1100100 101001 10001001010100 111 11 11 10111 1 0001101 11110011 01111110 10110 1100100 00110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of Awakening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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