This is an analysis of the poem The Sacrifices that begins with:
Twin boys I bore, my joy, my care,
My hope, my life they were to me;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcaca dXdXcece ababdede XfffbebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111001 11010101 11011000 01010011 11000101 11010111 01001101 11111101 010101110 110101101 010111010 11110101 011010101 11000101 11011101 11101111 11110111 10010001 11110101 11011111 01110111 11000111 11011101 11111110 11101101 11000101 11010101 11111101 11010101 10010111 0101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, they, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Sacrifices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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