This is an analysis of the poem The Seeking Of Content that begins with:
Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate,
Called, 'Wilt thou let me in?'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabccaadbbdXX eXeeXXeeebbbcdX fXfbeeggdbXbdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 111111 111111111 1101101 11010110010 111001010 0111111001 100110101 11001011 1110101001 10111101001 10100111111 0110010110 110110010 11010111 1111010 11100101 1100111 111010111 111100111 1011110111 011100111 01010010 0100111101 001011111 111110110 11011111110 010111101 111100101 1101111 111111 10000101 1111011 11011111 11011111 101111111 101110101 00101010 11001111001 1001010110 01111111101 0010110010 11001101011 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; thou, to, we, on, he, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, to, shut, nothing are repeated.
The author used the same word sweet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Seeking Of Content;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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