This is an analysis of the poem Now I Understand Your Pain that begins with:

Feeling a priviliged life kept,
With beliefs that a keeping......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaXXacab XdXaccdcXd X Xb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,1,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100100011 0011010 001010101 00111001 11000101100 0100010111010 0111101101 010111001 0101010011 01001111101 11010101101 101011010010 1010100100 1 1111110011 1011001001 0111101000111 110011101010 1011110100100 001110101011 1110111 1 1110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Now I Understand Your Pain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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