This is an analysis of the poem Yet Heard To Speak Specifically that begins with:
I have never been one to hang onto,
A false sense of stability....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XXX b caXcdb XXe cedXX decaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,6,3,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010110 01100100 1 1 1011001 11011110 111100101 1011010100 1110101 11001100 10010101110 01010010 1111011010 110100101010 0010001101 111101101010 1001 1010110 10110 111100100101 1 101 01100 0101010100 000100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Yet Heard To Speak Specifically;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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