This is an analysis of the poem Be You Uplifted that begins with:
Be you uplifted with those gifts you get.
Keep them polished with unrelenting persistence....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa abaca aaddd XbXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110001111 101001010010 1000100010001 110011001101001 10100100010000 011000111100 10100100100010 101000110011001 1011011001010010 10110101010001001 01100101 01100111101 10101011010101 11011110111101 01011100101111 0110000010010 1110010010111101 11010001010100 1010010010101010 0100101111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, to, and, you, with are repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Be You Uplifted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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