This is an analysis of the poem Unless that begins with:
Who has not wanted, does not guess
What plenty is.--Who has not groped ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbbc dbdbacca aeaebXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11001111 01011100 110101 0101011 01011101 10010101 011100 11110101 11011111 01011111 110100 01011101 11110100 11011100 010111 11111101 11001110 01011011 110101 11111111 11010100 11111101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, has, and, knows are repeated.
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- summary of Unless;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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