This is an analysis of the poem Our Limitations that begins with:
WE trust and fear, we question and believe,
From life's dark threads a trembling faith to weave,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd eeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110101 01110100101 1101110111 11101010001 10110011101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11001110101 01001010101 0101011111 10110011001 01011100101 1011010101 1011001101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Our Limitations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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