This is an analysis of the poem To-Day that begins with:
I rake no coffined clay, nor publish wide
The resurrection of departed pride.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd ddeeaaddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110011101 0101000101 1011010111 11110011101 1001110111 1101010101 1101010101 01010110001 1101111111 0111011011 1111011101 1111111101 1101110101 1101001101 1111111111 0101000101 1011010101 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, late are repeated.
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- summary of To-Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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