This is an analysis of the poem The Balancing Of Sanity that begins with:
There was a time,
When I would lay with mind awake......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdd Xefgfaa fXhbiibjX ebXiklh hmb XcX gXhl akjXXflbimi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,9,7,3,3,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11110101 11100101 110010 1011 11111111 111101111 011101 0011001 0010011111 11001 10110111 1010101001 1101001 010101101 111101 10111111 100101 010101 111111 1 111010 111011011 11101001 01010 101101001 01000111 1010011000100 0100001101010111 11100010 1101001 1101111001 1 11 10101 1 01 00111011 10001010010100 110100 00101 1111000100 0100010010 1 010101001000100 01100111010001 101 1110001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; i, would, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Balancing Of Sanity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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