This is an analysis of the poem In The Numbing Done To Free From Dilemmas that begins with:

Still maintaining your fight,
With the same demons? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcbc ab Xabcdda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 00110 1101101 100101 0110101101 11110101 01111 111101 00101010010 1 1111010 010101110 101010 1111011 10111101 010011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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  • summary of In The Numbing Done To Free From Dilemmas;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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