This is an analysis of the poem Accustomed To Ignoring Their Own Treasures that begins with:
When I came to give,
Hands were closed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCde baceeXc aBCbe XcXdXd fffaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 101 1101 01110100 10001001100 11001010 11101 100100 101011011 11011 001011101 100110011001 11101 101 1101 10101 1110101 111010 110100001 11 01 111101100 110001101 010001 01000101110 101001 1110001 10101101101 1001 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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