This is an analysis of the poem They'Ve Come that begins with:
Today my mother and sisters
came to see me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX XcdX aXaba cedX XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 1011 11001011 0110111110 110010011 010110101 110111010 1001101110110 11011111011 101 11111110 11011 1101011 1101000101 001 011010 1010010 1111010100 0111011010 110010101 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of They'Ve Come;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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