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