This is an analysis of the poem As This Day Nears that begins with:
The gift of giving is the gift one gets.
With feelings that should be expressed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca Xada cdef dfeXbbbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101000111 01011001 101101 11110 1101011010 00100101 10011010 01011100 1101101111 10110101 001010101 10001010111 1111010101 010011101 100100010 11010010011 0010011011 1 100101 11010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to 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 As This Day Nears;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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