This is an analysis of the poem The Offering that begins with:
What will you give me for this heart of mine,
No heart of gold, and yet my dearest treasure?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bbcc ded eeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011110101 11011111010 0101001111 11110111010 01110111110 1011110111 1111111101 1111011111 01010110110 1001110001 10010101010 10101111010 0101110101 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, my, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of The Offering;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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