This is an analysis of the poem Before A Gripping Hand Can Affix To It that begins with:
I was told as a child,
That money did not grow on trees....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXb bbXXab bXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11001111 11111010010 0100 11100110101 010100010 011100101110 11111111 1011110001 10111 110101110100 11011011010010 010 010101 0101011100000101 00110100010 11111011 1100100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; as, to, i are repeated.
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- summary of Before A Gripping Hand Can Affix To It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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