This is an analysis of the poem An Invitation that begins with:
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some
Official – high up he says in the Ministry,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccccbdbdcefefcXcX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010101001 0101111100100 111110100101 1100001110101 11011111100 001010111111 11101110100 001110111111 11111000100 11010111101 0111011100 101111010100 1011010100 11101001011011 010100100111 110111111001 01010110101 110010110101 11100010100111 11010111011 1111110101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of An Invitation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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