This is an analysis of the poem More Deliberately Taken that begins with:
Steps done to make,
Seem more deliberately taken......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabab X Xab XcadX eXb XfdeX XdebfX XX bX XgbX XXXcbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,3,5,3,5,6,2,2,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 110100010 1100010 11010101010 01000101110 11110101 111001101111 111101110 011010001101 1 0111100101001 111010110010 10101010010011 1010100101 011 01100110 1100010101 1 11101000 11010100101 0111110101 001101 111111010 111 11000101010111 1101100111001 1111100 111000 1 1110101010 110 11111011 1 010 1111001001 11 1011010 101011 1 1101 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sure is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sure connects the lines.
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- summary of More Deliberately Taken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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