This is an analysis of the poem Gone To Forget To Leave that begins with:
There are those who may choose to die.
For whatever reason......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcaa X c dcedecdcd X cXbeafc efg CgGG CCh GG acCh gGgGgGGGaGGaGGaGGGaIGIGIGIIGaIaI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,1,9,1,7,3,4,3,2,4,32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111010 111001 01011010001 11001101 10101001 00110001001 11010 1001010 1010000010 01010001111 0010101 001010101 11101000110 101010110101 01101 0100101 1 01000100010 1001010 101001000101 101010010111 0101 100100 1000101001010 11001001011 100110 110001 11101010101 111110110 111101 1101010 110110 110110 111101 11 001010 110110 110110 1111 01 11 0100 110101110 101110 11101110 101110 10101110 101110 11101110 101110 1 101110 101110 1 101110 101110 1 101110 101110 11101110 1 100101 1101110 100101 1101110 100101 11101110 100101 100101 11101110 1 100101 1 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, pain, inside, there, hiding, gone are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, pain, gone are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 hiding, leave are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hiding at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gone connects the lines.
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