This is an analysis of the poem In This Existence that begins with:
A consistency of a love wanted and missed,
Seems as I age with desire for it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB ACDBEaf AABdBD ACDBEaa dadBDG FGhG GIHG FGHG GIHGXaGHG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,6,7,6,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000011011 1111001010 01100110 11110001 11111010 11100101 10110 101100101 1011111101 11101110011 001000011011 1111001010 01100110 10101110101 10100111 0010001 11110001 11111010 11100101 10110 101100101 011111101 110010010100 11 110100100 0101110101 10100111 0010001 00010 1011 00010 00100001 101101 00010 1011010 100100001 101101 1011 00010 100100001 101101 00010 1011010 100100001 101101 111010 00010 100100001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word miss at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of In This Existence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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