This is an analysis of the poem A Busy Man that begins with:
This crowded life of God's good giving
No man has relished more than I;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac ababcdcd ebebfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 11110111 1011001010 11010101 110101010 11111101 110101010 11010101 11001110 11100101 111101010 11010101 110101011 11010101 111111010 11011101 111100010 11001101 010111110 11010101 0101001110 010110001 010110110 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i've is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i've, and, the are repeated.
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- summary of A Busy Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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