This is an analysis of the poem As The Sparks Fly Upward that begins with:
The little babe I held upon my knee
Had not yet banished from his sleeping eyes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdbXbcedeaaXaadbXXfXfbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 1111000101 0101110111 111101101 1101111101 1111101101 1011110101 0101110001 1111010100 0110011111 0111111110 1111011111 1001011111 1111010101 1101110101 0101011101 1011110111 1101110001 1111110101 1111101110 01010111111 1111010101 1101010111 1001110101 1101010101 1111111101 1011110101 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1220
- Average number of words per stanza: 253
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.
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- summary of As The Sparks Fly Upward;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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