This is an analysis of the poem Alms that begins with:
My heart is what it was before,
A house where people come and go;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCb deCe ffgX dhCh ijXj iaXAXCgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01110111 10010011 01010101 11011101 11010101 10010011 01010101 11010101 01110101 11110101 11110001 11001101 11011001 10010011 11011100 11011111 01110101 11010111 11111101 11111101 01110101 11010101 11010101 10010011 11010101 110101001 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, them 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 Alms;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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