This is an analysis of the poem A Song that begins with:
I.
No riches from his scanty store... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd X Xebc X fdfXe X caca a egeg a hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,4,1,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11000101 110101 110101 1 11110101 010111 1101001001101 111101 1 01010101 110101 11111111 110 110111 1 01010101 011101 11011101 011101 1 11010101 111101 01000101 011111 1 01010101 110101 011100111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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