This is an analysis of the poem An Answer that begins with:
If all the year was summer-time,
And all the aim of life... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh ibibXhfhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 110101 11011101 111011 01010101 1101010 11011111 1111010 01010111 111101 11011101 111001 01110101 0100101 11111111 111111 11011101 111101 11010101 110101 10111111 110111 01011111 111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Answer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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