This is an analysis of the poem They Were Welcome To Their Belief that begins with:
Grief may have thought it was grief.
Care may have thought it was care....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABab cdcd efefXABab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111011 1111011 10100101 0100001 10110111 00111001 0101111 001011101 10100111 0100101 101101001 01101001 1111011 1111011 1101101 00101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of They Were Welcome To Their Belief;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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