This is an analysis of the poem With A Choice To Keep The Value that begins with:
Why is it important to you now,
To hear my voice? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacb dXddeeb d ABfXf XXdfd ccXcXfdd aXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,1,5,5,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010011 0111 1011 11110001 11 101101010 00001000101 0101011011 110011100010 1101110100 1101101 001101101 10101110 100010011 0111 0111010 101001 1101111 01100100 110101 11011110 1010011101 11011101 10111 110101011 110 011010101 10011101010 101001 111101 0010101000010 101100101 01010 010111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of With A Choice To Keep The Value;
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- idea of the verse;
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