This is an analysis of the poem The Best Gift One Can Get that begins with:
The best gift one can get,
Is to grow older to experience......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcX adabcd XX X X d X Xceacde XXdebecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,2,1,1,1,1,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 0011000100 0100011 1001010100 11001010110 110110100100 110011001001 01001001 011100010001 101101010101 001001111 011010111000 1100110 11 111010 11 101111011 11 1 0001 101 101 1001 1001101 10101 11 001101 101101 101011100 11 110111010 1110001011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Best Gift One Can Get;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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