This is an analysis of the poem On Giving And Taking that begins with:
Once there lived a man who had a valley-full of needles. And one
day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: 'Friend, my son's...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111010101011 101001010111111 1001111110011100 1011111010 1110101011100110 110110010001011110 010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of On Giving And Taking;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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