This is an analysis of the poem Real And Honest that begins with:
Keep it with you night and day long.
Never turning off but left on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabAbACC CDEDCDEDCC FbFgFbH CDdXFbFgFbH CDd CDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,7,11,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 10101111 1100 11 10100 11 010111001 01010101 101 1101 010 001 101 1101 010 001 010111001 01010101 101010011 100 101010011 1 101010011 0100 101010101111 101 1101 01 1 101010011 100 101010011 1 101010011 0100 101010101111 101 110 1 101 110 0101010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word keep at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words feel, lose at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Real And Honest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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