This is an analysis of the poem Recompense that begins with:
Ah, more to me than many days and many dreams,
And more than every hope, or any memory,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011101 1111001110100 010111111000 111111111011 110101001101 01010101001110 0101111111010 1001001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Recompense;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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