This is an analysis of the poem Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) that begins with:

Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdefghfijfjdkljcd XmihcnecemoeCpmobqdXmgeeaoacrp hXcnfbpfmmsfah Xahmpphhnhkcjfescheeeeedgmscmenofchqp ejppmccdencefgmcCm ponmhefhXXhXXicqrfoXf mddsdddmcgofhadjlXhfpr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,30,14,37,18,21,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 0111101 111110 0001001 000101 1000101 10100101 1001011001 110101 100101 11010 1010101101 11010 10000010101 1011 11010 1111 1110101011 01011110 101011100 10110 1101101 11010 1101010 1 0110100 1010101 1011110111 1110110 00101 01110 010111111 0111101 010011011 0101101 110100 0101101 1010100011 11111 10 01110 011111 10100 0111 110 1100110 101010010 111101001 1011 0001011 0110100101 0101011000 101100010 11101 101001 0101 110011 00101 01001001 111001001 01001011 111001110 1110010 111010 100111 11010 101101 1011 1011101 0111101 010001101 01000111 1011110 0110010 1010110 111001 101010 100101 1001010 1001010101 1001101 01010 1010 1011010 111110101 11111011 1101101 110101 011 01001 10111 011010110 101100101 11101 111110 1010 1111010 11001 1111 01101 0101 101 110101 1111 1101 010110 1001111 110001010 0000111 1111101 11110110 1111111101 11110101 0101110 101111 1111110101 101001111 0111101 11101010101 1111 11001010 11010 110011 1010 111110 1111101010 111010 11111111 01110100 011 01010 1110001 11010 1101101 111011011 10110101 0110110 11111010 11 11010 1101 11111 11010 1111 11110 11110 111101 10101 11111001 101111 10 10101010 010111 1110 100011011 100001101 1101011 1110101 11000101 0101010 11 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i, i'm are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words into, her, the, i, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sleep is repeated).

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  • summary of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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