This is an analysis of the poem Begin To Think About Your Life As... that begins with:
Forget the rain,
To compare every pain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABBCbDBDBDeX AABBCbDBDBDeX XBBDBDXAABBCbBBDBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 0011001 0101 1101110 01010111 1 0101111101 10101 0101111111 10101 0101111111 1 111100101 0101 0011001 0101 1101110 01010111 1 0101111101 10101 0101111111 10101 0101111111 1 111100101 1 111110101 10101 100101110 10101 100101110 0101 0011001 0101 1101110 01010111 1 111110101 10101 100101110 10101 100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word forget at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words numbs, welcome at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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