This is an analysis of the poem Walking In Someone Else's Shoes that begins with:
I feel like this about life...
If you have reached your 40's,50's and 60's...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcde fffbe geXedh iigbXhd efceXXhafdgfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110011 01111111 0010010011010 10111 110101110 10100101 101111011 111100100110 110 01110 101111001 100101101001 11011 111010111 011011101 11111101101 1100110100 1110111011110 1101011 0101 11010 110 1111101000010 111 1010001 0110011101 111101100001 0100101 0110011000 0010100110101 001011 0111001001010 10010110100100 1001111101 00100110 111101001010100 011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Walking In Someone Else's Shoes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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