This is an analysis of the poem That Lesson Has Been Learned that begins with:
If anything you have ever done,
Has been to benefit someone else......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcad EacdEfdf ffddgcX EedEXgdbbdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111101 100100111 0110001 10001 110101 01011100001 11110010 0010011101 101011001 10111001 101101110 11010101 1011001 11011001010 010010111010 100011010101 110110010111 0101101010100 11010101 01011101 01011100001 1111101 1110001001 10111001 110111110100 101001 1110101010 010010100 1111101 0101101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of That Lesson Has Been Learned;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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