This is an analysis of the poem Parting Gift that begins with:
I cannot give you the Metropolitan Tower;
I cannot give you heaven;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXababa ccXcdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101010010 1101110 10110010010010 110010 1111101011 110111 00101000101 1101101 11011010010 1101110 11110010101 01110 111110101010 110111 10011110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, nor are 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 Parting Gift;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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