This is an analysis of the poem The Skirt that begins with:
Hallo Germaine that's a fine skirt you have
A fine skirt for a queen A cruel queen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XbcX XbcbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101111 0111010101 1101001001 1101111101 11010111010 11110100110 10111101110 11110111010 11111100110 1111110111 11110111110 1101110011 10011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, those are repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Skirt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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