This is an analysis of the poem How Thankful I Am that begins with:

I awaken each day,
With gratitude on my mind....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcde Afaac cggee AXefd dXdefb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 0101111 1010011 00101110 1001110 101011 101101 111001001 1101001111 111011 11011 0010101 01001000111 10111001 1101001100100 101011 100101001000100 00100011101 011111101 0111010110100 1101101011 11111010 11111000100101 111011001 0010001011101 10111001010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 am is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of How Thankful I Am;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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