This is an analysis of the poem Your Acts Kept Practiced that begins with:
While you were deciding,
Who was and who was not worthy......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE aXfXf GHdXhfh GHXd ABCDEXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 11111110 010111 1101 1101010 110100 01010010 1101111 101001 01011 1111 001010 11011 011111 1101 10101 10111 1111 001010 10110 1101011 110010 11111110 010111 1101 1101010 11110 101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The author used the same words while, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Your Acts Kept Practiced;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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