This is an analysis of the poem An Old Doll that begins with:
Low on her little stool she sits
To make a nursing lap,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX defe ghah cfif jdid dXik fbXb ilhXXXaX alml mljl geke midi alml mkek dhdh kfmfXllml
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 010101 11110101 010110 010111001 010101 11111101 110111 1111101 111111 01010101 101100 11000101 100101 00010011 110101 01010001 110101 11010111 010111 01010101 110110 01010111 110101 11010011 010111 01010101 010101 11110111 110101 11111101 110001 1000101 1101001 11110101 110000 01010100 000101 11110001 110101 010100111 010101 01100101 111111 11010001 101101 11000101 010101 11111101 010101 11110111 111101 11110101 010111 01010001 010100 11100111 111101 11000100 100101 11110011 110101 01010101 111100 01000101 110101 010101101 110111 11010001 100101 01001101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of An Old Doll;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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