This is an analysis of the poem Lesson that begins with:
Our love has chosen its appropriate gesture
Which when viewed in the midst of all the gestures...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abc ccc cdb bbX daXXAbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100010010 11100101010 010111110100 0101111000100 110111111011 0111101110100 000101110110101 10010010101001 101111011110 001010010111010 11101111010 0111010010011 101110101001010 01110100100110 11110100100 111100010010 1110010011010 1010100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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 Lesson;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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