This is an analysis of the poem Never To Reopen that begins with:
Serious I am,
About my life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE efgefhie eij XXc agkck ake jkklihklg k ABCDEXccecel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,3,3,5,3,9,1,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 0111 01000 1111 11101111 110010 011101 011011000 110 111111 101000111 0110 100010 1111010 010111 1101011010 1101101011 010111 11000010111 111101 1010 1110011010 101001 11001011100 111111000 101110101 0111 10100 111001000 101010 101010 0101001 11 11110110 101010101 111110110110 11111011010 10011 0111 01000 1111 11101111 1011 11 111 1 0111110 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Never To Reopen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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