This is an analysis of the poem Questions that begins with:
Would you sell your boy for a stack of gold?
Would you miss that hand that is yours to hold?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeffggbbhhiibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111110101 1111110101 1110101101 010011010 0110100101 1111110101 01100100101 011110111 1101101101 1111101101 1111101101 100100101 1111100111 0110101101 11100100101 0101101101 111101011111 010100100 1110111101 1110101111 11101101111 111111101 1110101101 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1057
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; would, you, in, that, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words would, and are repeated.
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- summary of Questions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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