This is an analysis of the poem The Temptation that begins with:
YOU bring your love too late, dear, I have no love to buy it,
I spent my love on worthless toys, at fairs you do not know;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cdcd eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111111010 11111101111111 11010101111010 1111111111101 11111101111110 111011111111 110111011101110 111111111111 111100111110110 1111011111101 11110101101010 1111111111011 10111111101111 1111111111101 11110011110011 1101110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, love, dear, me, leave, no, have, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Temptation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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