This is an analysis of the poem Vivid Clarity: These Steps I Take that begins with:
It is the 'who' in me pursued.
Appearing as I do before you......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ecebdd fgchcXiX hdadX GFJeAD GFJeAD icgkk gdfcdh LCD kXkk gfh cdjXLCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,8,5,6,6,5,6,3,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00010101 010111011 011000 101010101 10101101 1110000010 11010010 1011101 11100111 001110101 01010111011 11110100 0111110 10111010 00101 0001010010010 1110 1101010011 111110 01111111 11110001 0010101 11111 1001100 1111 1011101010 1 1101 01111111111 1001100 1111 1011101010 1 1101 01111111111 110 111111 00010100 0001001 11101 11101011010100 100111100 1101000010 011001 11001 10100110001 0101001 1101010010010 101010 1111 0010001010101 01010110100001 1011 010100 11111 11101010 10110011100 1001010 1111010 0101001 1101010010010 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word vivid at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word that at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Vivid Clarity: These Steps I Take;
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- idea of the verse;
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