This is an analysis of the poem When A Consciousness Begins To Lift that begins with:
When a consciousness begins to lift...
To leave behind foolishness that exists....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abacd Acadd Aedd AaXa Ab AbddaaX AaXaaAea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,2,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101000101 0101100101 1100101000 1011010 0110010 101000101 00101010 100101 1100101 01101001001 101000101 001100001 10111010010 0111010 101000101 00101 1100101 1100 101000101 010111100 101000101 1010000 110101 10010 01 1111 11 101000101 010101 010101001010 010011101 0010111 101000101 011111 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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