This is an analysis of the poem Looking Forward And Not In Retrospect that begins with:
I did not arrive to dispute anyone's belief.
I hear that on a daily basis from those still in grief....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcd ceede fccfX XdXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100110101 11110101001101 101010110100 110010111 0011010010001 1110100011101 11010101 0010011001 1010101011011 10010001001011 0101001101010 001010011101 101010011111101 110101011010 1110101011010 11010111 00100110101 1011100101001 111001010 111001010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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