This is an analysis of the poem It Wasn'T Given that begins with:
I pray everyday to keep my 'darkside' away.
With a staying peaceful....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacdXc beceXb Xaddffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101110001 001010 11101010 10001 110010010101 101100101101 011001010110 011011110101010 11111 101101001111 1010110101001 11101010100111 0110100101010 0100010111010 110011000 0111001 01110111111 11010100010 1011100111 1101010 1110001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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, of, i are repeated.
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- summary of It Wasn'T Given;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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