This is an analysis of the poem Close Your Eyes And Repeat After Me that begins with:
With a giving to me,
Of your fixed and focused eye contact......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXde eaXXcXX X bdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001 011110111 11010111011 010011100 11100010101 101001111 1 111101101 1011101111 111011011100111 1111111 01101110101 01111100110 110111110 1111 111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; and, i are repeated.
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- summary of Close Your Eyes And Repeat After Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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