This is an analysis of the poem Should They Be Forgiven that begins with:
Misunderstandings happen.
But should they be forgiven, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbcd AAbedXX fcghdch Xf ebXcXXgXhdhcacaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,7,2,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 1110010 1111010 00010100 1001011011 1001010 1110010 11111010 010111 110 10110 1110 11001 1101001 010010 10111101 10011100 101011 10101011 11010100 0111010 10010001 01111 110 111110 0100100101001 001010000101 110111 11111111011 0100101010 1100101010011 00101010010001 10110101010101 0011000 11110001101 111010010010010 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ones, to, of are repeated.
The author used the same words misunderstandings, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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