This is an analysis of the poem Left Less Expressive To Suggest that begins with:

Sitting from day to day and awaiting,
As decades slip away from them to pass......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbccad bdaaaeXc edddeceaeXdceeda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011010 1011010001 1101011101 0011111001 101001111 10000000010100 11100010 10101 1010010 110010000101 1000101001 1110100010100 00111100 11011101 1110101 01011100010 10010101 10100010101 10001101011 00101101 100110010 01011100101 11001 1101100110100 0010101101 01000110 111001001 011001011 0101111 0100 11101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines obvious is repeated).

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  • summary of Left Less Expressive To Suggest;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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