This is an analysis of the poem The Witness that begins with:
One day I 'know' I am going to find
That someone in my life...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDCE XadadfdgfegXgABCDCEa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111001 111011 10010111111 111101110100 10 00011 1000111010111 101 001111 11010101110 0011001101 111001010100 111001000101 1 0110 10001110100 11001101 1 1111111001 111011 10010111111 111101110100 10 00011 110100001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, who are repeated.
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- summary of The Witness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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