This is an analysis of the poem Reliving Nightmares that begins with:
Enjoying the healing that has come to mend,
Are the ones who had once lived subjected......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aaaabc AXaXcC XBDeXC BDeXaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011101 1011111010 110010001011 110100100010 11010010 010100100110 01001011101 1111010010 0100101101 000100111000 1101011111 010111011011001 1010 11001 0010001 100 00 010111011011001 11001 0010001 100 11 10001 010111011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length 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; to, over are repeated.
The author used the same word enjoying at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Reliving Nightmares;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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