This is an analysis of the poem Taking Loads Off Their Backs that begins with:
This may be your yesterday,
Delayed with promises again to make....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbcdddceffAXXegeXgXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101101 0101000101 010101101 1001110 1010111 11001101 0011111 01101101111 100101011001 1110100 0101000110100 0101101 0010011101 11000100110011 11011111 101100111 11111101 111010 11010111 01101010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 749
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you is repeated.
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- summary of Taking Loads Off Their Backs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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