This is an analysis of the poem To Bessie Drennan that begins with:
Because she could find no one else to paint a picture of the old family place where she and her sisters lived. . .she attended an adult education...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdXe Xfaa begh hiid fehh gaij XaXi feXc cXji hiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111010100011001111010110101101010100100011010101101111001001 0011010110 1011110 010100111 1101011 100101001 10101001 110110101 010111010 101101100010 1110110010 1001010111 01011101010 111010110 110110110 1100101 011001001 100111001 10101110 111010011001 0000111110 11100111010 1110100010 011001001 1001001 1000111011 1101010110 010100010 001111100 1101011011 1100110110 101100101 10010101001000 1010101110 01011010 110010011 1111011 010001 111101010 00101110 01011 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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