This is an analysis of the poem To Radiate Or Shine Bright With Light that begins with:
There is a couple of things I've always known.
My worth and value....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABca defefgd hiXjhgi fhcijcc ABchfeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010011111 11110 110101101 1001010011010 11001010 11101 10010101010 10011010101 1101 0101110 1110 1100101 010101 100100101 11101001010101 101110 0110100111100 10111111010101 101000100110 11010100010 1111 11001000101 11101000111 11110101011 1100111101 10010011111 11110 110101101 11110110 111101010110 010011101 110110111 110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, people, they, these are repeated.
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- summary of To Radiate Or Shine Bright With Light;
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