This is an analysis of the poem The Keepsake that begins with:
The tedded hay, the first-fruits of the soil,
The tedded hay and corn-sheaves in one field,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdefegdbdcgdbh XijXejcafXckchgdbXibkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011001 0101111011 1101110111 1011011001 11010101101 1101100101 0101000101 1111010010 01010101011 1111011101 11001011111 11111100001 1101010111 10110101101 01001010111 11010111111 11010110101 00110111010 1011010100 1011110101 10110001010 11101000101 1011110111 10010100010 0011010101 10110111101 1111111101 0101011111 0101011101 0101110111 0111001101 11010110101 1111010101 0111000101 1111010111 110100001101 01110110101 1101110111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 876
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Keepsake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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