This is an analysis of the poem Not A Day That Goes By that begins with:
I gave up feeling obligated and the notion of it,
To proving to anyone I could understand......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBCbdd bXaaXAe bBBCXAe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010101000 010010011101 10100101 1101000101110 0101011010 101110 11000101010 1011101001 01010010101 101011011010110 11110010001 000100110101010 110111111111 10011111111110 111101010 010010011101 10100101 1101000101110 01010 110111111111 10010111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word better at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Not A Day That Goes By;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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