This is an analysis of the poem Brighter Are My Days that begins with:
If it was not,
From a love you gave to me......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAd ABdda Efeae geeg GDHAf ABCAb EGDHAf ggHAf GcGdhi GgddXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 0011101 111010 1010111 011010001 0011 0011101 11110 111101 0010010 11110101 1101001011 111101011 10111 110111 100101 10101 1111010 10101011 10111 110111 10111 011101 0101 0011 0011101 111010 1010111 111100 11110101 10111 110111 10111 011101 01 10101 1110101 10111 011101 010101 10111 11111010 10111 10111010 1110101 11 10111 10111 110111 110111 100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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:
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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word brighter is repeated.
The author used the same words if, brighter 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 nights is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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