This is an analysis of the poem Not On This Day that begins with:
I did not get blessed this morning,
To awaken to crave a tasting of yesterdays' leftovers......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDXee dXeff XXbebee ABCDdXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111010 0010010100100110 01001011110111 1101 10100101101 1101111 1101001110001 101110101 01010011110 101111111001 10011111001 1010010010110111 1011111011010011 00101010010 0110011011100 0110100011111 1111111 1101001011 1101001001011 10111010 0010010100100110 01001011110111 1101 101110101 00111010111101 11111101110100 1001100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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