This is an analysis of the poem The Fruit Shop that begins with:
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown,
High-waisted, girdled with bright blue;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcacaadddddacaccXdeddfgfgghbhbXdidiijdjddekekkalallhihihhdgdgggbgbbjdjdddidXimimmbnXnnihihiijfjffjgjgXjhXmamammdddddeieeaiaiiioioomimiicXcXcjjjjjieieiijjjjjhehecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 166,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 11010011 011101101 1100010100 111010101 010111001 01011111 11110101 0011110101 100101101 010110101 110100101 111010111 1100100101 11001110111 1100111001 1111110101 011011111 00101001101 011101111 01110111 100100101 11010101 100110101 0101001101 10010101 110010101 110100101 10100101 1011110111 0100110101 111011011 1100111011 101110111 1100100111 011011101 11110101 010011101 110110101 11011101 101110101 1100100101 0011110101 110111101 011010101 111010101 11000101 1010010011 011001111 100100111 1111100111 101001111010 110010101 11110101010 010010010010 10011101 110011111 1110111001 0010110101 11010001101 11100111101 1111111101 1110011101 100101111 1100101001 001101111 1100101101 01011101 111111101 011100101 0011100111 11111101 11011111 110110111 110011111 10011011011 0110101111 01010111 101111111 1100101010 111101001 1011101 11110101 101110101 011111001 1011001001 1101101001 11110011100 10011101 010100101 1011111101 1011110111 101011001011 1110111111 11100101111 110110101 0100110111 111111101 11100100101 110110101 0111010101 1110100111 101010101101 1101011001 1010101111 11001101011 110101111 10110101101 1110110101 1101101011 0011110111 110111001 010100101 11010101 11110100 0010110111 110110101 1100010101 010100101 0101110101 1111000101 0110101111 111011111 111111111 1011000101 10010110 110111001 110101001 0101101011 110100111 110100101 1110100101 11110101 1100101001 11010101 111101101 100100101 010110101 11011111 01110111 10101010000 11111111 01111101 11011101 011011101 11010111 01111101 01010101 001011101 11111101 01010101 11011111 01000111 01011101 10010101 11110101 10011101 01010101 11110001 10011101 1010111 111111 011010001 0110101 11001 10100101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6678
- Average number of words per stanza: 1236
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, and, her, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Fruit Shop;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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