This is an analysis of the poem Ask What I Shall Give Thee (Ii) that begins with:
If Solomon for wisdom prayed,
The Lord before had made him wise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfg hXhX hihi afafXieie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01001101 01011111 11010111 11110101 11010101 11010101 110110010 01110101 11011101 11110101 01110101 10110101 11110101 010110111 11011101 11110011 11111111 111101010 11000101 11011101 10110101 10110111 01110111 11010101 11011101 10110111 01110101 01011111 11011111 10110101 11011111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, our, and, to, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word more is repeated.
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- summary of Ask What I Shall Give Thee (Ii);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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