This is an analysis of the poem The Creole Girl; Or, The Physician’s Story that begins with:

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SHE came to England from the island clime ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcXX cdcdX efefX ghgha eheha ijijX klklX aeaeX cgcgg adada eieiX heheX imimX jajaX ejXjX ieXeX aeaeX cfcfX jjjjX ihihX ehehX fafaX eXejX hnhnX fmfoX bnbnX iegeX acacX XjojX aeaeX ililX ehehX fefeX ececX mamaX jmjmX jmjmX pjpjX kekeX kikiX ahah Xa eeeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 10010111010 1 1101010101 1001010101 1101101101 0011010001 1 11111100001 1111110111 1111111101 1101010101 1 1101110011 1101000101 0111010101 1111011101 1 1001111101 0101110101 1001110111 0111010111 1 1101010101 0101010111 10111101001 01001100111 1 1101010101 1101010001 1011010111 1111010101 1 0111011101 1111010101 01010001001 1101000101 1 01001011111 1111000101 0111000101 0101000101 1 0101000101 01001011001 1111010011 1111000101 1 01001010001 1111111101 010010011001 1101011101 1 1100111101 11001010101 01001010101 0101010101 1 1111011101 110001101 1101001101 110010100001 1 1111010101 11001010101 10011110101 1111110101 1 1100010101 0101110101 1101111101 1011010101 1 10111010101 1001000101 11001011101 1101111101 1 1111010101 1101010101 1101110001 01001001101 1 1101110101 1111010111 0101011101 0100010001 1 1101010101 1101010101 1001110111 1001011101 1 100100100101 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1 1111011101 1101010101 1101011111 01110010011 1 1101111101 1011010111 1111110000 0011010101 1 1101010101 11010101100 10111100011 10101110101 1 1101010101 01001010101 0100110101 1111010011 1 1111010011 1101100101 1011001101 1101010100 1 1111011101 0101010001 1101010011 1101001111 1 1001010110 1111001101 11000100100 1101010111 1 1111010111 1100110101 00110011111 0101110111 1 1001110111 1101110101 0100011100 1101111100 1 1001010101 1111110001 0101000101 1011010101 1 1001010111 1110111111 1110110101 11010010001 1 1101110101 01001110101 1101110101 0111101101 1 1001111111 0101001001 1111010101 1100110101 1 1101010111 0001011001 0101111100 1101000101 1 1011111111 1101110101 1101010111 11110101001 1 110111011001 1001110101 0110011101 1011000101 1 1001000101 1111010101 0111010111 1101110101 1 1111011111 10001010101 0100111101 1111110111 1 1111110101 1100011101 1101110111 1011000101 1 1101111111 0101011101 01001110001 10111001001 1 11001011010 1101110101 1101010101 1001011110 11 1 1111110011 0101110111 0111010111 1001011101 1 1111011101 01001001100 11011101110 1011011101 1 0111110111 0111010101 010101100011 1101111101 1 1111001111 0101010111 1000010101 0011010101 1 11010100101 1011011111 0111000101 0101010101 1 1100111101 0101100101 0101011101 1111111101 1 1111011011 1101111101 1111011101 1101010101 1 1101110101 1111111101 1101110101 00101000101 1 1100010011 1101111100 1111010101 1111011111 1 0101011110 1101011101 1001000101 1011110101 1 1101110111 1100110111 1111111111 1101011101 1 1101011101 0101010001 1010011111 1111011101 1 11010110001 10010111001 1101111101 1011011101 1 11111101010 1101110111 11010101110 1001110111 1 1111011101 0111001101 01001010101 0101111111 1 1101111001 1111001001 1111011111 1111111101 1 1111111111 1101111101 1111011101 11001010101 1 1101111111 1101110101 1011101110 1111111101 1 0101000101 0001011101 1101011101 1101010101 1 11110101001 1101001111 1101001101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 306
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, of, her, his, she, like, thee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, her, like, no, thee, there are repeated.

    The author used the same words she, the, when, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Creole Girl; Or, The Physician’s Story;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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