This is an analysis of the poem Lines that begins with:
Upon the altar of my life there lies
A costly offering: its price I know; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbacXcdbXXXXXcda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101001111 0101000111 011011010110 1011110100 011101100101 1001101101 11011001101 10011110001 0100101010100 1101110100 111111010010 01001111101 1111001111 11011111110 1001010111 110111010110 1101010011 0100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 805
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; it, in are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Lines;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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