This is an analysis of the poem That Sharing Of Our Own Ignorance that begins with:

We haven't been this close since,
Well......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbCdaEfgX dhhhfi AbCffhaEfdXdc XXihfaEfaacfXXfA HIfAIHAHIfAIHAHIfAAfAAfAHI GJHHIHIGJHHIHI
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,13,16,26,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100011 1 1111110 0011010 10100010001 0100101101 01 1010011 110110100 1111010 10011110 010111110 110010 011101 111110 1100011 1 1111110 010101 0100011100100 101010 010100010001 0100101101 01 001001011010 10110101 110 111101111 10111 0110101011 0011110 011000111 0010110001 1010100010001 0100101101 01 0100111011 01110101 0100010110 001101001001 100 1011010101 1111010001 010011100 1101 01001 1 10011100 01001 1101 010011100 1101 0101001 1 10011100 01001 1101 010011100 1101 0101001 1 10011100 010011100 1 10011100 010011100 1 10011100 1101 0101001 11 1101 111101 111 1101 1111 1101 11 1101 111101 111 1101 1111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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, with, sharing, of, our, own, ignorance are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word belong at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of That Sharing Of Our Own Ignorance;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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