This is an analysis of the poem The Trust that begins with:
Because I've eighty years and odd,
And darkling is my day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC cdcdeceC fbfbgcgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110011 110011 11010111 110101 11010011 110111 101010101 101111 100110001 011101 11010011 111101 11010101 111101 11110011 101111 101110111 111101 11010101 111001 11011111 111001 11110101 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word best at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Trust;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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