This is an analysis of the poem Never Been Accompanied that begins with:
If I spent all of my time,
Thinking about heartache......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXXXccd edaXbffgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 100111 0101001 0100110 01101100010 10010001 110110010 111111000 11110010101 111 111000100101111 11101001 111010110 101010 111011110 1110101 10011011101 10101010 010111111011 010001101000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Never Been Accompanied;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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