This is an analysis of the poem I Did Not Lose Any Sleep When You Left that begins with:
Your decision made to follow others,
On a path that seemed safely paved for you......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXc dcXae fgfgXdhbh XehXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010 1011110111 1010 010110 11101 1101010101 110111001 01010 01000010 110110101 111010 010111101 11001010 101111101101 001011010 11011100 1110110100 101101011 100 1 1011101111 1111101101100 10011001101 11110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, you, i are repeated.
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- summary of I Did Not Lose Any Sleep When You Left;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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