This is an analysis of the poem Too Long There To Be Forgotten that begins with:
Can't stop from liking what it is I do,
To push aside and deny......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC DDE BDFX dX DDE BDFX ABC bBDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,2,3,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011 0101101 1101000010 110100101 1101101 00100010 11 11 010101011 100010110 11111 10110010 110100101 1101101 00100010 11 11 010101011 100010110 1101010011 0101101 1101000010 10100110101 11 11 100010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Too Long There To Be Forgotten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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