This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xxii: I Shall Gladly Suffer that begins with:

I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house,
if only in some happy future I am born a herd-boy in the Brinda...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXbcXXcddXcXaXbXXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001010011011 0100110101110110010 10 0111100101010010 1110110100010110 11100100111 110010011110111 010001100100110 11110100101100 110101 101110100101101 101010110101100 100101001111101 10100101100101 10101011011101 1010010001010010 11110101010011 101010101011101 00110 1101000101000110 1101111001010101 0010010110110010100 10110010110110 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, with, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Lover's Gifts Xxii: I Shall Gladly Suffer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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