This is an analysis of the poem An Idyll that begins with:
‘And even our women,’ lastly grumbles Ben,
‘Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!’... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeffddggggggXbccXdhhXdddaXddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010101 1011011111 01011111110 10010001110 01010101110 10110110110 11111111010 01111001010 0101010100 1101010101 11010011010 11110101110 11010101110 10110100010 01010101010 010101001010 11110111010 11011111010 10111101010 00110111010 11110100010 11111001010 11110011110 01111111110 11010001100 10010101010 111000111010 10110111110 11111101010 01111100010 11010100010 01111111010 11010001010 11100101110 11110111010 11001111010 11111101010 11111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1779
- Average number of words per stanza: 319
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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- summary of An Idyll;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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