This is an analysis of the poem Appreciation that begins with:
Earth was not Earth before her sons appeared,
Nor Beauty Beauty ere young Love was born:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaXbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1101011111 1111110111 11010101110 0110110001 0101010010 1011000101 0111111111 1101111111 1111010111 1101010101 01100111101 1111011101 1101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
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- summary of Appreciation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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