This is an analysis of the poem Keep Hope Alive that begins with:
Am I still angry?
Not anymore....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccbX XXX dXdXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1101 11110101 00100011 1101111 101101011101 00100111 1 111110 010100101 11011 10 1111110101010 110 111110101010 1111101101 10110110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines headache is repeated).
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