This is an analysis of the poem The Precinct. Rochester that begins with:
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand,
Still and straight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdbeXfbfagdd dahiihBfcaXiddjkfe hgbggccaXgfebBlaeDc glafgeehjX aaXXbkgX gddiXdXdekXaD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,18,19,10,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011 111 01110110 001011 11001101 101101 1101 1110 11000100 0111110010 11001110 01011001011 11101001 0101 1111 0101 01111 11101 01001010 0010 101 001010 1010 010101010011 1111 0101110101 1110110 011111001 111101 111101 1011100 01101100 101101110 010011 1011 100101 1100010 001011 111101 1101 000101 1001 10100010 1010010110 010011110 1011001 001010 101010110 10101 011101 000101 1101010 0100101 11100101010110 111010 10111111110 1110101 1101010010 011011 1011 11111 0101010 100110111 101111001 1011100 111111010 1010101100 11011 1111 100100001011000 01000101 101001011 10010101000010 1011110110 1110111101 101 1010110110 10110110 0100 011011 101001100001 10101 000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines still, again are repeated).
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- summary of The Precinct. Rochester;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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