This is an analysis of the poem Possessions that begins with:
They spent my life plotting against me.
With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaX bbcbccadbXaXbb eaca XbXXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,14,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110011 01001110101 1001010111 10100011 10011010 111101 1100100100 1111110010 1111010110 1111110010 01001010 11001101111 1101010 10111001 111100101 01101100111 11001101011 101101011 1101110101 101001010110 0100101111 10100100101 101101101 111111010 111001111 11100110011 1100100101 0101011110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, when, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Possessions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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