This is an analysis of the poem Unpretentious Are Those Gifted that begins with:

That well fed the crops they harvested.
The animals grazed......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABCAb dXeb X AEC DAABCAbcb DXX Xc cAECdXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,1,3,9,3,2,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011100 01001 0101 111010 101001 11110 010101 011101100 10110010 1010111010 0100101011 110101110 111010 11010101 101 111011100 01001 0101 111010 101001 111010 111110011 101100100 101 0110010 010101 0100101011 10111001001 1 110101110 111010 11010101 101011 11 010001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.

    The author used the same word once at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word pockets at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Unpretentious Are Those Gifted;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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