This is an analysis of the poem While Others Still Heal From Wounds that begins with:

As a writer and broadening with a point of view,
Expanding without a hint or clue......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcDX BCEFBB gEbebdX bdhi BCEFBBhi DGDJB DGDJB DGDJB DJB DJB DJC DJC DJK DJCXDJKJKDDDJdJKJKJ
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,4,8,5,5,5,3,3,3,3,3,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110000101 010010111 00111011101 111010001 1101101 01111100011011 00100010000110010 001 01001100 11001011 00100101 101100011101010 00100010 01001100 111001 0100110 110010101 100111 10 0010001101001 101101010001101 111010011101 110010 00100010000110010 001 01001100 11001011 00100101 101100011101010 110101110101 1010 1101101 010010 1101101 01101 10110101 1101101 010010 1101101 01101 10110101 1101101 010010 1101101 01101 10110101 1101101 01101 1111 1101101 01101 1111 1101101 01101 1101 1101101 01101 1101 1101101 01101 11 1101101 01101 1101 1101101 01101 11 01101 11 1101101 1101101 1101101 01101 10101101 01101 11 01101 11 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • 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; while, others, still, heal, from, wounds are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.

    The author used the same words it, while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wounds is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words them, laid, made, fact at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of While Others Still Heal From Wounds;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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