This is an analysis of the poem Today I Had To Forgive Myself (My Life Is Meant To Be Lived) that begins with:
I saw something I had never seen before,
Once I looked beyond my own sorrows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcd edeeccXX eafdac dcXced DbDddXXaaDDfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101110101 111011110 11011111101 011101 011011 0100111 11101 1100010 111101 010101010 111101 111 111010 1010101 0101011 1111 01101111 011100111 1111101110 111110101 101111101 1111111110 1101111010 111101000100 01010101110 1110100101101 010111111 1101001 1011010011010 1101001 1111111 11111 00101011010 1101110100 1010111001 100110110011001 1101001 1101001 11 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, my, to, life, meant, be, lived are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word 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 lived is repeated).
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