This is an analysis of the poem If It Was Not Concerning Them that begins with:
How can one be detached,
From their own feelings? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecb e dffXaee deaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 01110 111101 111010 0001 11 1001011110 11111101 11111110101 110100 1111101 011100 101010001 110001 1100101 1111011001010 101011010010010 111111111 00110100 11101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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.
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- summary of If It Was Not Concerning Them;
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- idea of the verse;
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