This is an analysis of the poem Since I'Ve Come To My Senses that begins with:
Giving up on my life,
To not sleep peacefully at night....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaBCb cXaBCcd dXeBC dfdafBC dafBcXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 01110011 0010001 111101 1101 1110110 101111101 101111 0100111 10 1101 1110110 11110 10101 1011100101 001010 1010101 1101 1110110 101001 1101101 011111010001 0101001101 1 1101 1110110 10111101010 1010010011001 1 1101 1111 11110101101010 00100110 011010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 giving at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word senses at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Since I'Ve Come To My Senses;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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