This is an analysis of the poem See That Gesture that begins with:
If I have ever extended my hand,
With a smile to offer to you......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba XXb XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001011 00101001 10100 10001101101 1 1010010111 11100101101 111 10100110010 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
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- summary of See That Gesture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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