This is an analysis of the poem From The Root that begins with:
How difficult is it,
For someone to pick from a selection of rocks......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX bcdb XXabb cdXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110000 111010001001 0110111 111101010 1101 001110010 01011010011 11100101 11011101 11110101010 0101000101011 1010001000011 101110001 11111010 010010010011 001010010 0010011111 1111011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of From The Root;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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