This is an analysis of the poem Yearning To Accomplish that begins with:
You may wish to believe,
You have given me something....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cbcde cXfgX EAgbXg EAXfcXbX deX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,6,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1110110 101011 0011001110 10100101 111 10100101011 1100111 11100101 10110110 1010010100 111100101011 111110010 0010011 101111001 100101010 1101011 11101 11101010 11111100001010 101111001 100101010 1100010 11010010001 1101100100111 00100110101110 110111101 1110010111 111111111 1 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same words maybe, anything at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase something connects the lines.
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- summary of Yearning To Accomplish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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