This is an analysis of the poem Adelaide Crapsey that begins with:

Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susans dripping yellow leaves in July,
I read your heart in a book....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX b X aXccXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101011101010111010101001 1111001 111011011111110110 1111010001101010110111100001011011000101 1011011001 1001111001 11110 1001010 10110010111010111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, in, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Adelaide Crapsey;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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