This is an analysis of the poem Beset With Those Expectations that begins with:
If it is believed,
The life you live is in need......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXccbcc cdcbccXcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00001 0111001 011 11110001 11101011010 1001101 10001101 10111101 10101111 0100011010101 001 1110101111 0100010011101 01 110101000 1010011001 01110010 0101110101 01111010010 00101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Beset With Those Expectations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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