This is an analysis of the poem I Owe Who I Am To You that begins with:
How grateful I am,
To have lived....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC dcedfd eXccfceXABCff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 011 111010 0010010 010101 01010 01100 1111 0010 100100010 001000 11101 010100 1111011 11111 110011 11011 011 111010 01101101 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
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- summary of I Owe Who I Am To You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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