This is an analysis of the poem Golden Bells that begins with:
When I was almost forty
I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X X X X X X X aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11010111101 1001011111 10100111011 010111110101 1000111011111 1100101011101 01110100101 1111010010010 1110101101001 110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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- summary of Golden Bells;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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