This is an analysis of the poem Judging Their Sacrifices that begins with:
Wouldn't it be nice,
If all it took to live our lives......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbca dbdXX dcbAaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001 01010111 1011110 11111 00111000010 11101 1001110 101101 100101010 1010 1111011001 11111 11011010 10001 01110110111 101111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Judging Their Sacrifices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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