This is an analysis of the poem Tested that begins with:
Why should I express regret,
Or miss something as I applied my own sweat......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAB CCA XadXa AAAB XcXde CCA AXace
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,4,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11101101111 0010001000 101011 10110001001 011001 10101011111 111001011 1101101 00100010 1110101111 1010101 1110101 11101101111 0010001000 101011 110111101 0011 1101001011110 1100101101 0111100101011 10110001001 011001 10101011111 1110101 110101010 01010101 0100101001101 10101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, to, i are repeated.
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- summary of Tested;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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