This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's Testament that begins with:
I give back to the earth what the earth gave,
All to the furrow, none to the grave,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee ffgg cchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110011011 100101001 0101010101 1111010101 11110101001 0101010101 11010111111 0101011101 1101010101 1101010001 1110110111 1111110111 1111010111 1101000101 11001010001 1001111101 01001000111 0111011101 11110111001 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; to, nor, my, and, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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