This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
THE merchant, to secure his treasure,
Conveys it in a borrow'd name: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcac dddd eeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001010 10000111 100101110 1100111 11011101 10100101 110100010 11111111 11111111 10110111 11111001 1111111 11011001 111111110 11000101 1001111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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