This is an analysis of the poem This I Have I Been Shown that begins with:
Remember those days,
Seeing people cross a street......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcad AAEFGa baabaheaXbihb AAEFG Xjb jjga ecaiabkd ehacdkaXdaabk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,13,5,3,4,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 1010101 0010110110 00101011110 1000101101 110100100011 11010 11110101 011110101 01111011101100 0101010 1101010111111 10100101 110101011 0110101 0101100001 11101110 11 101011 10010100110 1 11110110100 110100100110 1111100101 110100100011 11010 11110101 011110101 01111011101100 11010111011 1111111001 10111010110 11010101111001 100111 1111110101110 00010001111 11 1111011010100010 1111001010 1111010010111 11010101001110 0010101 110101101100 1010101011101 11101001 0010111110 10100110110 10100011010 0010111011 01101 101 1 1111101 00100010110 110101001 1111101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same words do, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines odds is repeated).
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- summary of This I Have I Been Shown;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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