This is an analysis of the poem How We Learned Our Lessons that begins with:
Through the living of their lives...
That's how we learned our lessons....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAA bcAA aAddA cceXaA caeaf bXfgcg AAAA gXa fXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,5,6,4,3,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1111110 101010011010 1111110 111011100 01111110 1010011 1111110 1001011001 1111110 1010001 10101011 1111110 110111110 010011101100 101111101100 01100100110 11001 1111110 10101111 0110111001 1100111001 001001000011 10111010001 1001101 10111010101 111110011100 100011101101 110110 001 1010011 1111110 101010011010 1111110 10000 1101010110 110 1111110 1011010100 1101001 110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, we, to 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.
The poet repeated the same word lessons at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of How We Learned Our Lessons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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