This is an analysis of the poem The To-Be-Forgotten that begins with:
I
I heard a small sad sound,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXX XccXd XXaXa Xeeff aaagg aaadd XhhaX XeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110111 1101010101 10001101110110 1101100 1 1011101 1111010101 10010100011 1101001 1 1011100 1101110111 1111011110 010101 1 1011101 1111110101 1001110101 000101 1 111111 1101011111 1101110100 011111 1 1011000 110011001001 1111111001 110111 1 1010111 01011101001 10011100111 111101 1 101101 1111010001 1101111111 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, we, things are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The To-Be-Forgotten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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