This is an analysis of the poem Today I Felt It Safe that begins with:
Today I felt it safe,
And knew it was okay......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ADc ddd ABC ADC bee ABC ebbb ABC Xffcc ABCXADCe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 110111 010111001 011101 00101 11011001 11110101 11001 1010111 011101 110111 010111001 011101 00101 010111001 11101101 101101 011101 11011101 110111 010111001 111110101 1011011 11101 101 11011101 110111 010111001 110010 1111 11011 110101 01 011101 110111 010111001 011101 00101 010111001 11110011011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
The author used the same words today, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Today I Felt It Safe;
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- history of its creation;
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