This is an analysis of the poem The Test that begins with:
Love has moods: and I am cold,
Very cold ofttimes to Thee;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede bfbf ghgh ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 10110001 1010111 0110101 1111101 1110111 1111101 1111110 1010101 10011101 1110101 1010111 0111010 1011101 00100111 1011100 1110111 1110101 1110111 1010111 11111011 0001101 10111011 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, thou, all, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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- summary of The Test;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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