This is an analysis of the poem Taylor's Song that begins with:
For joys the hours of earth bestow
With sorrow thou must pay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdEEaa efefcgcgEEee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 010111 11010111 111101 01001101 110101 010100111 010101 101101 101101 11110111 101101 11111101 110101 01110111 010101 11111111 111001 11110111 110101 101101 101101 01011111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thy, mary, anne are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mary is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines anne is repeated).
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- summary of Taylor's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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