This is an analysis of the poem Handcuffed that begins with:
There's not a single day,
One gets up to face the dawn......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBDcEfAafAdgFDCadC dgFDCXDCGDC ABCBDbEfAgDCgXDCGddC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,11,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1110101 011100 10101001 100101 1100 11011101 1 100101 10110111 1 100101 1101101 01011011 1011101 11101001100 011 1100101101 1101001100 011 110110111 010110111 1011101 11101001100 011 101010 11101001100 011 0011 01101001100 011 110101 1110101 011100 10101001 100101 1100111011 11011101 1 100101 110110011 01101001100 011 11 11011 11101001100 011 0011 11011111 1101100 011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lives at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Handcuffed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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