This is an analysis of the poem Lost As A Treasured Experience that begins with:
If it was not meant to be taken seriously,
None of it would have been given to be taken...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb ccdX deddX XacXeXdeeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011100101000 100110100010 0010001 1101010 010101001000 010101 10001001001 101000 1111010 111000101 010100001010 110100100110 1 0 011100101000 1001011000001 1010010001000 0010110101010010 1 010010001 01001001000 010001000110100100 10010110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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, of, it are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Lost As A Treasured Experience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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