This is an analysis of the poem Newfoundland's Gift that begins with:
Gifts from a full garner - wealth from a brimming store -
How shall these things be offered from a sea-girt land and poor?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa ccdd aadd ccd Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110100101 11110100011111 1111011101011 11100101111 110110111011 110110101111 110111011101 1111110111101 11111101110 111110101010 10101011101 1110101001101 100111111101 11111110111 11111011101 1110100110101 1111101111100 1111101111100 1111111111101 1 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, from, toll, o', them, to, salt, and, heart are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, toll, salt are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there, them are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Newfoundland's Gift;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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