This is an analysis of the poem If I Awakened Without Life that begins with:
If I awakened without life,
How could I prove it? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcb AXXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 11110 11001101 111110010 1101101101 01010011 1100 1110100 110100001 11010 1010010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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