This is an analysis of the poem A Song For Evaleen that begins with:
Sing a song for Evaleen, only two years old,
Running laughing on life's path in her wilful way;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeebfXf ggggbbbbdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110110101 101011100101 1111101010101 111010100101 101010111101 011011110111 111010110111 101001101111 1010101001001 101110110101 111010111101 111110011101 101010110001 101110111101 101111110100 101110110111 101010100111 101010101101 111110111101 101110110011 101010111101 1110010111100 101010111101 101110111101 10101001100111 1000101100101 1000101100101 001110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 725
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, it, in, bless are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, bless are repeated.
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- summary of A Song For Evaleen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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