This is an analysis of the poem Gertrude that begins with:
Underneath the maple-tree
Gertrude worked her filigree,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXBccddaXb eeBccddeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 10101 0110111 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010100 110101 1010101 1010100 10101 1111101 1110101 1010001 1010101 1010101 1010100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word underneath at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Gertrude;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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