This is an analysis of the poem A Borrowed Song that begins with:
Give me, O Lord
A few more songs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdEFGH iXXdcj jXkd hcajlmmXbj XlbjhkkXciXEFGH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,4,10,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111 110010 1101 101011 101010010 111 11011 11011101 100100 101000101 11000101 10110010 11001010 10010110 110111 1111101010 000101 1100100010010 01000101 111111001 11101000 1011010 11001 1010111 010110 11101 11111 111100110 1010010 1111 1111 1111010101 110101010 01110110 10001 1110101 1101 101011 101010010 111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Borrowed Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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