This is an analysis of the poem If There Is Division that begins with:
If there is division...
It has been envisioned, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ddbX eefXXfebgdf ABC fghcdhfXfhhdXABCda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,11,3,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 010010 11111100 010001 01001 00100101 1110010 0100010 001010110 01011 11111 00101 110010100 11010 10101 101110010 11010100 111101 010010 010010 11111100 11110100 101110111 0010010111 1010100 11001 010111010 101100100 100010 1010010100 10100001101 0100101100 1011 010010 010010 11111100 11101 1100001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If There Is Division;
- central theme;
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