This is an analysis of the poem Barter that begins with:
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbcc AdXdee XeXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100001 11001101 11100101 10101111 11010101 1010101 11100001 1010101 1011001 1111111 11110101 1011101 111111000 10110101 111101001 110010111 11010100 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; that is repeated.
The author used the same word life at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Barter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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