This is an analysis of the poem Talent That Is Given that begins with:
Would you ask a mason,
To build you a home? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc ded eeefgffd dhiXbi bjkbebbd fhabaXkcjjbdadgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,8,6,8,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 01101 01001 101101 1111101 001011 010101010 111110111 01111111 1101101 1110101 0110101110 10001000101 0110110111 0101001 1111101 01010101 10110001 1111010 101110110 1110101101 101111101 1110110 1 101001 01111101 111110 110101 100101 1011010111 011101 1 11000 1011100101 1 1110 01010110 1010100 11110100 1100110010 10101010 11010011100 1001 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Talent That Is Given;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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