This is an analysis of the poem Give Praises For This Day You Witness that begins with:
Give praises for this day you witness,
In gratitude for those blessings......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC dec aeee ABC abc aaXcXbcXada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 01011110 11101 1101001010 111 101101 1010011010 1111001 1100110101 11111111 110101110 01011110 11101 11110111 01111 1110101 01111101 1101000101 00101 11001 010 110 11111 111110100 011111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; for, you, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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- summary of Give Praises For This Day You Witness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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