This is an analysis of the poem The First Lord's Song that begins with:
When I was a lad I served a term
As office boy to an Attorney's firm;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccddeX aaffeX ggXXeX ffhheX eehheX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1110101000111 11011101100 11110100011 110111101 11110100101 110100111 1110101000111 110101000111 11110100011 010111101 1110011101 1111010111 1010101010101 1110101001111 11110100011 010101010101 1111000101 111010111 10101111011 111011101 11110100011 11111111 10101100100 1111011101 1110101011111 1111010101 11010100011 1101010110 01101001001 011001001101 010001010101 11011110101 11110100011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, that, to, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word navee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The First Lord's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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