This is an analysis of the poem For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also that begins with:
The miser lay on his lonely bed;
Life's candle was burning dim....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaab cbcXcX caddca efccef ccaacc cdcccd cgffcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 1101101 010110111 1010111101 110000111 010101 101001011 1111101 101111011 1011101011 1010101111 101001010 110011111 011111 101110111 010110101 110111101 0110111 1011111101 10101101 100111001 110110101 11111101001 1100101 11111111 100101 10111101 11110111 0111101101 11001001 010101101 1011111 110011011 100100101 110111001 0011101 101101111 101111 001110101 0110110001 101010111 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, his are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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