This is an analysis of the poem The Blessing that begins with:
THE MASTER He was hungry:
‘Shall we not dine,’ said He, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccb adbdbbd abXbeeb Xfdfddfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 111111 10010101 000101 11011111 10110001 110101 0101110 110111 01110101 111101 10111101 11000100 010101 0101110 110111 11001111 010001 111101101 11111111 111111 0101110 011111 01011111 011111 11111111 01010101 011111 11111111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Blessing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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