This is an analysis of the poem Jerry that begins with:
Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine
And then I married Jerry, the iceman, for a change....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdXebdXcea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011001011001 1111010010101 11111111 111110100011 1111111100101 1 100111011101101 11010111111011 1110110111101 1101111001000101 1010000111010 00111110101010100 1 01101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Jerry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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