This is an analysis of the poem If This Is Meant that begins with:
If it's meant,
A loneliness experienced....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabXa a AAABCXXAdA XXeXXef f AAABCXXAdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,10,7,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001 01000100 01011 1100010 0111 0001 001 001010011 11101 1100010 1111 101010 10100111 01 0 001 010001 00100101 1001100001 110100 0101101 01001011 0010011101 00011010 001 001010011 11101 1100010 1111 101010 10100111 01 0 001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 if 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines meant is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word meant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of If This Is Meant;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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