This is an analysis of the poem Books that begins with:
Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead,
Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdcdcededaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 1101010011 1110010111 1101110001 1101001101 1001100101 11010010001 0111010101 1111010101 1111000101 1101011101 1011001101 1110010001 1111001111 1101110101 01110010101 1101011111 0111110111 1111110111 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 882
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, nor are repeated.
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- summary of Books;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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