This is an analysis of the poem The Unfinished Book that begins with:
TAKE it, reader, idly passing,
This, like other idle lines; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddbb eeeeffddgX bfbfgghhii bbbbjjaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0110101 10101110 1010101 1110011 1011111 1011111 0110101 1011111 1110011 10101110 0010101 10001110 1010101 1101101 1010100 1001111 1010101 1011101 1000100 101010110 1011111 11101110 1111101 1110111 01101001 1110111 1110111 1011111 1001101 11101010 1110101 11101010 1111101 1110011 0111101 1001101 1110101 1010101 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; any, last, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words any, our are repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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- summary of The Unfinished Book;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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