This is an analysis of the poem The Request that begins with:
The sun that you stole
Was mine....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB bdde fXdd dXgb dXgd eddh dehf ABCB X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111 11 011110010 11 0111101101 1101010 01001101010 01110110101 001010111010 0011010010001 01011000 011110010111 111001101 011010010010 11011111 10101 110101001 1010101111 1110101110 1111111 11110111001011 101011010011 0101110100110 1110111101 000010010011 00111110101 010010011 010010010010 01111 11 011110010 11 01001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, mine, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i 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 mine, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of The Request;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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