This is an analysis of the poem Alone that begins with:
THE lilies clustered fair and tall;
I stood outside the garden wall;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee XXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11110101 110111001 01010111 11010101 10110101 11010101 100110101 010101001 010110101 01010011 10110101 111101100 11111100 11011101 11111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, her are repeated.
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- summary of Alone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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