This is an analysis of the poem Keep Close What You Treasure that begins with:
Keep close what you treasure,
Snug to hug your chest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXdddedXff gfg D fXXhhdXceXbfXDAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,3,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111110 10111 10100111111 011000 11010010001 0100101010100 1111100100 0101001101 11101010010 0110011101 11101010001 0101010011 111101 00101110 0011100111 11011111 1011111 10101011 10111 11101100101 10101010 010111 0010011100 1100010011 111101 00100010010101 11111101 1101 11011111 111110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; of, to, and, your are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Keep Close What You Treasure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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