This is an analysis of the poem With A Wish To Dismiss Your Pain that begins with:

You have censored the existence,
Of your own lives....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaX bXbXaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100010 0111 00101110001 1110001 0101 11110100101 1110110 1101110 00100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of With A Wish To Dismiss Your Pain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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