This is an analysis of the poem Expecting To Be Heard But Not To Listen that begins with:
If I dared not to test my faith,
How would I know the strength of it to validate? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXcXdbc caXaXadXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111101000100 10111111 10011101 1010001011011 1101 11110111111 11100111001 010011111010 11010101110101 011101110011 11110100 0100010101 101101111001 1011100011010 111101001110100 11001110100101 11101100011101 0111001 101000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; i, 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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