This is an analysis of the poem Cousin Kate that begins with:
I was a cottage maiden
Hardened by sun and air ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbDbDb XeXedefe dgdgagdg bfbfdfdf hihieiciXddfdidad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 101111 01001101 110111 10011111 111101 10011111 011101 11100101 111111 01010101 011101 11110101 111101 11111011 111001 11011101 111111 11111101 111111 11110101 110101 11010101 010111 01101011 111001 01011011 111111 101111101 110111 110111001 110101 11011111 111101 01111111 011111 11111001 111001 11110001 1111001 11011111 111101 11111101 110111 11111111 110101 110110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; his, you, have, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, if are repeated.
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- summary of Cousin Kate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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