This is an analysis of the poem The Priceless Thing that begins with:
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and the peerless are unpriced symbolic things....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aa dd dd bb ee aa ff dd dd gg hh ii ii jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011110111101 1010101011000101 101111101110111 101010101010101 111010101110101 100101010110001 101111101000101 101010101011101 111010101010101 101010111110011 001011101110001 101011101110101 101011101010101 111010101010001 101011101010001 101011101110101 1101010101111111 101110101110101 1011101010011110 1110100100110101 101010101010101 111010100010101 101010101010101 110010100010001 001011101110101 1011111011001001 101010111010111 1010111000101001 111011101010111 101010101010001 111010100010111 101011111010101 001111101110101 1111100101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Priceless Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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