This is an analysis of the poem These Moments Seldom Arrive that begins with:
There is no trust felt for someone,
The heart does not provide....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bbcd ecfc eccX XXcd Xfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 011101 101010001 010111 10101101101 010111 101001 111 0010010 01101010100 110100010 1101101 0110011101010 111001010 1100111000 11001 1010001 0010 101 1010011 1101001 01001001 00100100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of These Moments Seldom Arrive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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