This is an analysis of the poem The Job that begins with:
The job will not make you, my boy;
The job will not bring you to fame...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcddc efefgcffc hghgXcaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 01011101 11011011 11101011 111101111 11001111 001001 101001 11111011 11101101 111111001 01111101 01101001 111011011 101001001 111001 101101 01111001 01011001 01101001 01011111 011101111 001101011 11011101 0101101 111101 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, may, job, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word job at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Job;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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