This is an analysis of the poem The Gift that begins with:
I THOUGHT, beloved, to have brought to you
A gift of quietness and ease and peace, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab bcbcXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101 0101001111 1011100101 100111 1011110101 1101010101 0011010101 110111 1011110101 1011010101 1101010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; of, , my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Gift;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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