This is an analysis of the poem The Gold Givers that begins with:
Oh, some shall stand in glory's light when all the strife is done,
And many a mother there shall say, 'For truth I gave my son!'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc cXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110101 110010111111111 11110101110101 11110101110111 11011101110101 11111101110111 11100101111001 11001111111101 11111011110111 111111010111111 01010101010101 11001111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, when, and, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Gold Givers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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