This is an analysis of the poem What God Delivers To You Is Yours To Keep that begins with:
When you find a shining penny on the ground,
Face up......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB aaa CBCBB ABBDc aBcDbXCBBBBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010101 11 101 111101001101 1101111 01011101 111101010111 11010010101 111101010111 11010010101 11010010101 11101010101 11 101 0100 1101001 111101010101 101 0101001 0100 101011 111101010111 11010010101 11010010101 101 101 101 101 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, keep, you, yours are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, it's, yours are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines up, keep are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word keep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What God Delivers To You Is Yours To Keep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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