This is an analysis of the poem To See that begins with:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 101000110 10100001011 101000110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; in is repeated.
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- summary of To See;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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