This is an analysis of the poem When All My Five And Country Senses See that begins with:

When all my five and country senses see,
The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaXaXX cbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110101 0100011111 110101001 1011110101 1001011101 01001011101 1111000101 1101000111 1011110100 1101011101 1111011100 0111010101 11111101010 0101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.

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  • summary of When All My Five And Country Senses See;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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