This is an analysis of the poem Birth-Dues that begins with:
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely
contemptible, the dangled...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXcXXb dXeXdeeeb bfefcbXdaXf Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,11,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100110010 0100010 1001100101100 1100010110010 10110 11101010010 100111101010 1001 0101011001 0110100110 1000100110 010010101010 11110111100 01011001 0011011100100 010001101110 1001011 0101010110 111110010011 1011000100 11101110011 1110100010110 011101011 001000111101 1 110101110011 100010100 111111100 10 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; who, and are repeated.
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- summary of Birth-Dues;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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