This is an analysis of the poem A Request that begins with:
When I am dead
I would that ye make my bed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbcccdd XXebbebbbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111111 11110101101 10100101011 1101 1111101 1101 00101001 10110111101 1010111 1011110100101 1111 1001110 1001001101 1001001001 10101 1001001 11111 10100101 010111111 11001001 1111100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 A Request;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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