This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of Content that begins with:
I: Palaces
A Wall of sod, a roof of thatch, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXb cded f gaca fdcd c agag eeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100 01010101 110101 110101100 101101 10010101 011101 11101101 010111 1100 01001101 1100111 11010101 110101 11011100 100111 01000011 010111 10100 11110101 110111 1111110 110101 1111011 010111 11010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.
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- summary of Songs Of Content;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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