This is an analysis of the poem Sees With A Desire Sought that begins with:
Like my father.
And his father before him......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccb dbXdb aXdXcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1010011 11010 11101 00100110 110110 11011111 101010 1010111101 01110111 1111010101 00100101 111110011101 1101110 100110110 0101111100110 0010010010110100 1 111010100010100 0110110011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, i, one are repeated.
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- summary of Sees With A Desire Sought;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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