This is an analysis of the poem I Seek To Have Sun that begins with:

Show me anything other than an enemy.
An enemy to fear with threats kept, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefbbeafdb dcXgghXhgb ggchibhcX bXbgcdXiafcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,9,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011100 110001011 1 11011 0101011101 10111 0101101 1 1001010 001010100 010001111 011011 1010100 1101101101 111001 010110 11100010 01101 001010 1110101 11110101 011110010 11011010 11011101 00111101 110001011 100100111 1101011 110100001 101 010101011 0101 1111 111101 1101100 001101000101 111101 111011010 0101110100 11110111 10001010100 1110001011 11101 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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  • summary of I Seek To Have Sun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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