This is an analysis of the poem The Sense Of Your Bidding that begins with:

The sense of your bidding is unclear:
to pray, to curse, is it, to fight...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabccb defefa XXdaXe cXbXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 010110001 01010001 111010010 001101010 1100100100 10001010 11101001 1111111 111000010 0110111 110111110 00110001 1010111 1010010101 111101 100101 110101110 011110101 0111010 0110010 11101001 110101 11011011 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; to, not are repeated.

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  • summary of The Sense Of Your Bidding;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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