This is an analysis of the poem Your Pride that begins with:
I sit and beg beside the gate,
I watch and wait to see you pass,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede cfef cdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11110111 11010101 11011101 11110101 11111111 11011111 11110101 11111101 110111001 11110101 01011111 11111101 11111111 11010101 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you, and, your are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Your Pride;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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