This is an analysis of the poem If You Have Been Given The Opportunity that begins with:
IF you have been given the opportunity,
To be invited to view a bigger picture of life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXca ddbdX bcXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010010100 00010010101001 1011 11110 11110111000 10110010100 1101001001 111010010 110110 100101 00111010 1001101001 11001000100 110000101010 1001101000100 0 11010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of If You Have Been Given The Opportunity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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