This is an analysis of the poem The Test that begins with:
Naked reality, and menace near
As fire to scorching flesh, shall not affright... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba cdcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001001101 11001011110 01011010101 1011111101 1101110101 1001111101 1111011111 1011011111 1111010111 1101010101 1001110001 1011110101 10010110111 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; would, one, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Test;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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