This is an analysis of the poem One Who Had To Leave that begins with:
No I did not,
Amuse myself......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCAc ADEAF GFCF AFHX ADEAF ABCAc AFHX GFCF EDiEX EDiEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,5,5,4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0111 110101 1101 11001 1101 111111 101 1101 11101 111010 110011 11011 0111 111010 11101 11101 110100 1101 111111 101 1101 11101 1101 0111 110101 1101 10101 111010 11101 11101 110100 111010 110011 11011 0111 11110111 11111 10101 11110111 10110 11110111 11111 1010101 11110111 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, i, felt are repeated.
The author used the same words no, you, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of One Who Had To Leave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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