This is an analysis of the poem Traumatic Has To Be The Reality Faced that begins with:

Traumatic for many,
These days lived......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCbXXdX eeXbfggf bABCXbXedXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110 111 100 010010110101 11111 0001000101 1100100101 0101000100 010100001001 1011011111011 11111010 111010 010111010111 1110011101100 1010100101 1101 1 010110 111 100 11110110 1111001 1100 0101001110 110101100 10100010 11110110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word traumatic at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Traumatic Has To Be The Reality Faced;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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