This is an analysis of the poem To Suit The Taste Of Those Wishing To Relive It that begins with:

Pain is only felt
By the one who is feeling it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbaXXcXaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 10110100 1010010100 0101101110 1001111010 000101010011 0011110 10101100111 0100011010011101 011110100010 11001011010 1011000 010101100010 010100 11100110100 111100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of To Suit The Taste Of Those Wishing To Relive It;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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