This is an analysis of the poem Inheritance that begins with:
I
To a bare blue hill... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc Dbdb dded fcfc dfef Xghg Xffif jfXf Xdkd hflf leXe jfmf Xdcd fflf fcdc Xncic nXhg afbf fhmh mefe hmfm dbibXjkDa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 00111 111110 10101 010010 01010 1101 10101 0111 11010 01010 01101 11010 1111 101010 111 1010010 111010 01101 010111 111 100111 10011 101100 1001 1 11111 010010 1111 001010 11010 0111 001110 0101 1110011 101 01110 1111 1110101 1011 001010 00101 110111 1101 11011 111 101010 0101 1010010 111 1110010 111 101110 0101 00101 10111 1001 10101 011010 01011 101001 101001 1 1101 101110 11 101110 100101 00111 1111 1111 11100 10110 10111 101010 101111 111011 11010 0111 110110 0111 011011 01011 1011110 111010 111011 110110 111001 101101 1011010 0111 1001 11010 01010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sweet is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of 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 Inheritance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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