This is an analysis of the poem Lived To Witness that begins with:
No longer do I awaken with questions,
To doubt yesterdays that have gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCBD XXaXec ABCCBDXeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010010 01101111 110000111 01011101 11010111 10101101 11011100101 11 11101101111 1101111 10010101011 1111001011101101 11011010010 01101111 110000111 01011101 11010111 10101101 110001 1 1001000 0110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, to are repeated.
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- summary of Lived To Witness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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