This is an analysis of the poem Our Minds Are Not Blind that begins with:
We both are unwilling victims,
Of a love left to go unexpressed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbc bbXcc AcdXc bCcBaXbcEDD BXBCcEDD BCBCEDDcc Bbc XbXXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,11,8,9,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 0011011000 0110010 1010101101 1111111 11101 11111 1101 01010101010101 11101010 0010111101 1010010 111010001 001 111111 011011 1001 111111 0010010 1000 1111111 0010001 101 101 0101110011001 111111 001010101011000 111111 011011 001001 101 101 0101110011001 111111 1111010101010101 111111 1111010101010101 101 101 0101110011001 1101110111 011111010101 111111 111110100010 0010 110 0101011010 01110 11001 011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, minds, to, not, we are repeated.
The author used the same words we, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word begin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Our Minds Are Not Blind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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