This is an analysis of the poem For These that begins with:
An acre of land between the shore and the hills,
Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX caac deedXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010101101 0101111101 01010011111 11010110101 0111111110 11110010111 1101001110 11010111011 0101110101 101111101001 11000100101 00101111101 1111111011 11110111110 110110101 0001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, love are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of For These;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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