This is an analysis of the poem Knowing I Can Not Accept Less that begins with:
When I approached...
I could not keep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb aXacXXXdd bXaa ebaea babcXa feefXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,5,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1111 11000010 1101110 01101 001110 1 0010111 001111 1010111 1101011 101010 010111010 111010 00100010 10111 110100001 01101 010101001100 101111 10101 0111101 101001001111 11110001 10111011 11001001 101001010 111 101101101 1000101101 1101011001 00100101 1111 10100010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, to are repeated.
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- summary of Knowing I Can Not Accept Less;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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