This is an analysis of the poem We Sit And Wish To Free Ourselves that begins with:
We sit and wish to free ourselves,
From the ease to fall into the grips of lamenting....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXca AdeXdd ccXcbc dXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0010100010010 1010001001010100 110010111101 11100111001 10001101001111 11110101 001010110110 101100010111 101011111 10101010101 000100100111010 0110110100010 1111001010 1101101 11101010 11001101000 110101 11111111100 1011111001 0110101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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