This is an analysis of the poem Work that begins with:
What though the heart be tired,
The heart, that long aspired,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddefffeXdddaddda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 011101 1111010 011001 0111011 0111111 1011001 110111 1001110 0111010 0101010 111111 1111110 1101010 0111110 110101 1111010 0111010 1111010 110101 1101010 1101110 11000010 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word beyond is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of Work;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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