This is an analysis of the poem To Greet, Meet And To Brag that begins with:
My eyes never left the ball.
Afterall......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbX aebaXda aXcbbed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 101 1011000111010 1111101010 111110101 00101011101 111010101 1110101111 11011001101 111011010 01001101 111010101 10111101 110111010 1110101101 1011011101 001001010 01111111011 1110101010 111110101101 1110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Greet, Meet And To Brag;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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