This is an analysis of the poem Overcoming Fear that begins with:
I have spent my entire life,
Overcoming fear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXbcXdcd AddXcXXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 10101 110101 1010010 1110110 11101 10011 1101111 111001 0001011010 11110101 101100 1100100111 11001101 101101 00100101110 10001010111 10100110110 101 1110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Overcoming Fear;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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