This is an analysis of the poem The Sundew that begins with:
A LITTLE marsh-plant, yellow green,
And pricked at lip with tender red.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbab cddcd effef deede Xdded eggeX eaaea hffhfXchhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11110101 11110111 11110101 111101001 01110111 01011100 10110111 11110101 10110111 01100101 01010100 11110111 001101101 11100001 1111100011 01010100 11110110 110110111 01010110 11110011 11110100 01001101 110010101 11110011 11010101 00010011 01110001 10110111 11111111 11010101 0111000110 11110111 00110001 11110101 11110110 11010101 01101101 11010100 10110001 01111101 10010110 11111110 11010101 110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Sundew;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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