This is an analysis of the poem Aunt Dorothy's Lecture that begins with:
Come, go and practise—get your work—
Do something, Nelly, pray.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdXd efgfcXhc ijgjkele kijiblalXbibXgkgeclcgdbd bXlfaaha gicibaiabclcfbbb igcgbfdf ilblbakaXjkakcaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,24,8,16,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 110101 11011101 000101 11111101 111101 10111100 1101001 11111111 111111 10010101 110111 011100101 10101110 11101101 110001 11111101 111011 111111101 110111 11011101 111001 10110101 1011111 111000100 010101 110111101 101111 111101111 1101101 1111110101 10100101 011011101 111111 111101000 010101 11010100 111101 10110101101 111101 11010111 011101 111100101 1100111 11010111 111111 111111111 110101 1010110101 1111110 110100101 110101 111111111 110111 1110111101 111111 110100101 011101 110110111 110111 11110111 101101 111110101 1110101 111011110 111101 0010111001 010101 10111111 101101 111101111 111111 011101100 111111 11111101 1111111 01111011 111101 11010101 111101 1111110 111101 111100101 0011101 110110101 111111 11111101 110111 1110010 111101 01011111 111111 11111101 010111 101111100 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, i, and, so, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, and are repeated.
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- summary of Aunt Dorothy's Lecture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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