This is an analysis of the poem What Today I Must Do that begins with:
Again I am given,
Another day to age and witness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB adbd EXdB EBD EBD ABCBb eDX eDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,3,5,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110 010101110 0101011111010 0011101 01001010 110111101 1111101011 111001101 1101111 00100111 00111010100 010001101 1101111 010001101 0011101001101 1101111 010001101 0011101001101 011110 010101110 0101011111010 0011101 11001011 011111 001101 0010001010 1011111 001101 0010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word another 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.
The poet repeated the same words forget, progess at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What Today I Must Do;
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