This is an analysis of the poem As The Sparrow that begins with:

To give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddbcaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111 111111110 01010101 1101100101011 01101101010 10011100010101 111100011010 001111100100000 111100100001 1101101110110 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

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  • summary of As The Sparrow;
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  • history of its creation;
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