This is an analysis of the poem What I Have Come For that begins with:
I HAVE come with my verses--I think I may claim
It is not the first time I have tried on the same.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee ffXa ffeeXaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011011111 001011111101 1010001101001 111011111001 111101101011 10111000111 11011001001 11111111101 111011011111 111011111011 101011011101 111010101001 111011111111 011011111101 111011111011 11011111011 111011111101 111101001011 110011001001 101011101011 11111111011 111011111101 11111101001 111111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, they, to, see are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What I Have Come For;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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