This is an analysis of the poem To Leave It Left that begins with:
Behind to leave it left.
As is meant when taking forward steps....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababACC DDCBBBBACC XXeeddX DDCBBBBACC X BB X BB X AeaaAXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,7,10,1,2,1,2,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 101110101 010101111 101010101 11101011 110 011 0101011 00101 00111010 010101 11011001100 0011110011 00110 11101011 110 011 1101 01101 0111001011 11101 011001 101001 00111111 0101011 00101 00111010 010101 11011001100 0011110011 00110 11101011 110 011 11110111111 111010 100100 11110111111 111010 100100 11110111111 10 01011 1 1 10 011101 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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, if, leave are repeated.
The author used the same word behind at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word could at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of To Leave It Left;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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