This is an analysis of the poem Each To Our Own Beliefs that begins with:
Do you mind if I asked you a question,
About 'your' beliefs? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab b cdce X ab fX cbfef X ffXf eXX dXXdX X geg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,4,1,2,2,5,1,4,3,5,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111010 01101 101101 110100100010 011100 11110101 0111100 11010 11111110 11110101 11 11010010101000 1 101 1 0011010010100 1 101010 110 010001110100 01001110 0011010010001000 110100 11 111011 1011110100100 111 0001000010 11001110101010 01001010 101110 101 010 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines beliefs is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word beliefs at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Each To Our Own Beliefs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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