This is an analysis of the poem If You Keep The Need Believed that begins with:
Don't linger to wish for those dreams,
Too long....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC dcdce ABCC Xfgedf ABCC ffXcXcXge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,6,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 11 1001011 1010101 10110101 111 1101 101111 0110101 11001111 11 1001011 1010101 10110 100110 010 1 1100101 010111010 11001111 11 1001011 1010101 011010011 111111 1110 1011 1111 010111 0 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to, you are repeated.
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- summary of If You Keep The Need Believed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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