This is an analysis of the poem The Burden that begins with:
One grief on me is laid
Each day of every year,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabccCc dEdeXcCc beBEccCc eeXXeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1101001 011111 101111 1001101 010101 110101 101101 011101 11001001 011101 011111 0101110 011111 110101 110101 011111 0111001 1101001 11001001 011101 011101 110101 110101 0101011101 10111011 101110100 1101100 010101101 0101001111 10101110 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; to, every, i, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, each, i are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word pain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Burden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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