This is an analysis of the poem To Handpick that begins with:
You have spent most of your adult life
Disregarding advice...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaaa bb XXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101101 101001 00101001001101 010111011 110100100 001000 1010101 011101011 101 110100101010 1 01011001010100 11010011001100 011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of To Handpick;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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