This is an analysis of the poem What Was Given Away that begins with:
What was given away,
Is now desired back....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab cccbda bXdX XdeaXb bdXaXdbcecdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001 010101 1111101110 110111011 11111001 111111 010101 001101 1110010 00101000101 10110101 1011110101 01000101101 1101001110001 00100010010100 1010101001001 101110110 110 11010100010011 110111011101001 11 011100111 010100 1101001101 1 01110 1101000100010 10100101 101 110100111 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What Was Given Away;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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