This is an analysis of the poem The Gift Outright that begins with:
The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaXbXaXXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011001 1111110100 0110010111 010100010 1101010100 010111010001 0111111101 1010010111 0111110101 10010011010 11110100010 1110110111 0101110101 00110101010 11100101000 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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- summary of The Gift Outright;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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