This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's Portion that begins with:
What is a mine—a treasury—a dower—
A magic talisman of mighty power? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccdXddeeffggddXXhhiiddXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010001 01010001010 0101010001 11101000101 0101010111 1101011011 1001011101 1011010101 0101100111 0101000101 11001010001 1101011101 1011000101 0100010011 0101011101 1110110111 1101010101 1001110101 1100011101 1101110100 01101010101 1001010101 1101010001 0101010101 1111110101 1111000111 0101101100 1101010100 11110111010 11111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1274
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of The Poet's Portion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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