This is an analysis of the poem Removing Of Those Shackles Borrowed that begins with:

Too many travel with weighted backs.
Too many are the torn and broken hearts......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab bcXXcX dEEEXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 110100101 1101011101 10001010 1101110 0100010101 001011 10111010010 01001001010 101011101 1 01000011 01000011 01000011 110100 00010011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; too, many, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, determining are repeated.

    The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines faith is repeated).

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  • summary of Removing Of Those Shackles Borrowed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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