This is an analysis of the poem The Best Gift One Can Receive that begins with:
Awakening from values placed,
On the emptiness of symbols and images......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB adbX cbcX aeaX ABCB acef Xegccae haXgX ddXhXXcf XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,7,5,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01000101 101000101100 1101010101010 11011111010 101010011 01110010101 010010010001001 00100100100 0110110110 001101010 111111 101000111 01101101 11101011 10011111 010101101 01000101 101000101100 1101010101010 11011111010 0100010011 01010 0101010 000111101 10000000 00111101000100 1 000100111101010 11000111 1101010100 11101010010111 1101100111011 111101101 0010 111111 1000 1 1111 111 111 011101 01111 1011010 11010111 11110 1 100 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; of, that are repeated.
The author used the same words today, awakening at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Best Gift One Can Receive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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