This is an analysis of the poem Every Day I Bear A Burden that begins with:
Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXabXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010111001001010 110010011010101001 01010010111111010101010 11011011010110101001001 111110111100010000101 110010110110111001010 1101000100100010101001011100 1010010111101110101110110101 101011010101001001010101110 101001010001001111011010010 111011010101000011110110 1100111110000010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1065
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 88 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, bear, sake, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, for are repeated.
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