This is an analysis of the poem Should I Lift My Eyes that begins with:
Ride with guilt?
Sit harnessed to remorse? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdXXbXXeeXcdXabXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 110001 10010100 11010101 100101 011 01001 1 111010010 01011 111100 111101 010101111 1 111110101 11111 100111000 001101 11101 11111110100 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Should I Lift My Eyes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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