This is an analysis of the poem Embellished Skills that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbbcdXd eaaa bfXgXefb Xhdggddaag XX hdbX X eehh X eXffbah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,10,2,4,1,4,1,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101010010 0101001 0111 1011010 1110101101 11101001 100110101 110011 00111 01010101 101110101 01010111 011010011110 0100110101 10111011001 01001010001 1100101 0111111011101 11110111111 0100111011101 1010101 0101111010110 10101101111 110101010000101 001110000101001 1111001001011 1110010111 00100111101 11000101001 1110011100010 1111101001010 11010001 1 11011 101 1111111 11001001 1101110101010 1111011101 110 1110 1100101 1110010011010 11111011 0100111010011 101010011000 00110110011111 11 1100010101011 1111 110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word often at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines this is repeated).

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  • summary of Embellished Skills;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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