This is an analysis of the poem The Beggar that begins with:
Encouraged by thy word
Of promise to the poor;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcbb dbdbee fgfghh ababcc adaXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 010001 010101 111101 11111111 11110111 0101001 010101 010101 111101 11111101 11111101 111101 111111 111101 11011 11101101 10010111 111101 110101 110101 111011 01111101 01011101 110001 110101 101101 110111 11010111 11011101 111110 110111 111101 111101 11111111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Beggar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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