This is an analysis of the poem To Elsie that begins with:
The pure products of America
go crazy--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa Xab ccd def bga hXX Xfh hdf aXi Xib hbf dhb dhc afd ihi Xac hfX cbg cjd fXi heXXdij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011000100 110 1010010 101110 10 0010111 100111 11 11010001 101111110 0110 10110010 11101 01 0110100 001111 01 001010111 10010010 100 11011 1101001 010 1110 10110110 1100 111001 0100110 01 00101001 011011100 111 001110 1101011 10 11011 11101010 111 10010 110100110 010010 010010 101011 01 01011101 0101 100 1111011 10011011 0 1100011 11010100 10 01001111 10010101 101 101101010 010010010 11 010011 0010010111 10 0101 11 010 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
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- summary of To Elsie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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